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GARDAÍ HAVE SEIZED luxury goods, counterfeit Apple headphones and over €25,000 in cash following two searches in Dublin.

The searches, carried out as part of an operation targeting intellectual property crime, were carried out at business and residential premises in the Dublin 1 and Dublin 13 areas.

Gardaí attached to the Dublin Metropolitan Region Intellectual Property and Counterfeit Investigations Unit conducted the searches, alongside the Dublin Crime Response Team and assisted by the National Criminal Bureau of Criminal Investigation (GNBCI).

https://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-seize-counterfeit-headphones-designer-goods-cash-6611273-Jan2025/

CHENNAI: AIU sleuths in Tiruchy International Airport seized 51,600 foreign cigarettes worth Rs 7.82 lakhs from a passenger flying in from Sharjah on Monday.

According to sources, while the AIU officials were inspecting the baggage of the passengers from Sharjah, who flew in on Air India Express flight (No IX 614), they suspected the movement of a male passenger and took him to a separate place and inspected his belonging in which they found that he was smuggling as many 50,000 sticks of ESSE Special Gold Cigarette in 250 cartons and 1,600 sticks of Davidoff White Slims Cigarette in eight cartons (each carton with 10 packets and each packet containing 20 sticks) together valued at Rs 7.82 lakh.

Subsequently, the officials seized the bundles and secured the passenger for further interrogation.

https://www.dtnext.in/news/tamilnadu/aiu-seizes-foreign-cigarettes-worth-rs-782-lakh-in-tiruchy-airport-820834

Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Police apprehended three persons for allegedly selling fake and tampered Fastrack watches illegally posing them as originals.

The police seized as many as 6,037 watches worth Rs 1 crore from the possession of the accused. The arrested were identified as Lalan Yadav, Gautam Sav and Kailash Sav. All of them are residents of Hyderabad and natives of Bihar.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) Ande Srinivasa Rao said that the accused did not complete their studies due to a lack of interest. They migrated to Hyderabad and started selling phone covers and artificial jewellery, googles etc in the limits of Charminar and Begum Bazar.

https://newsmeter.in/hyderabad/3-held-for-selling-tampered-fastrack-watches-at-charminar-rs-1-cr-worth-goods-seized-742755

Mumbai, Jan 6 (UNI) The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) had seized 74,000 capsules (29.6kg) of illicitly diverted pharmaceutical drugs worth Rs 75 lakh and 244,400 imported cigarettes linked with an international syndicate, which were destined for London, United Kingdom, officials said here on Monday.

The NCB officials said that seizures were made during a search operation at the Air Cargo Terminal of Mumbai Airport after input was received about an international syndicate that is involved in the procurement of pharmaceutical drugs from India through illicit diversion and further transported it to offshore-based customers.

https://www.uniindia.com/maha-ncb-seizes-74-400-illicit-capsules-and-imported-cigarettes/west/news/3361370.html

GEORGE TOWN: Marine police arrested two male foreign nationals and seized 4,120 cartons of cigarettes, worth RM847,616 including tax, in a raid on an unnumbered premises in Butterworth yesterday.

Marine Police Region 1 commander ACP Rusley Chi Ari said the raid was carried out by a Marine Intelligence Unit (URM) as part of Operation Taring Landai in the area at about 1 pm.

https://thesun.my/malaysia-news/marine-police-arrest-two-foreigners-seize-cigarettes-worth-over-rm840000-BO13486412

MUMBAI: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), Mumbai, busted a gold smuggling racket at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Sahar, by arresting five people, including two airport employees, and seized 6.3 kg of smuggled gold worth Rs 4.84 crore. Last year, more than two dozen airport and airline staffers were arrested for aiding and abetting the syndicate.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/5-crore-gold-seized-two-airport-staff-among-5-held/articleshow/116923300.cms

By the end of 2024, officers from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized a total of 93 kilograms of gold worth ₹66 crore from Ahmedabad and Surat airports. Throughout the year, DRI officers conducted several daring operations to catch gold smugglers. One such operation led to the seizure of 48 kilograms of gold in a single case.

On May 24, at Ahmedabad’s International Airport, two passengers arriving from Abu Dhabi were caught with gold paste hidden in their undergarments. Upon receiving a tip-off, DRI officers immediately began tracking them.

https://english.gujaratsamachar.com/news/gujarat/gold-worth-66-cr-seized-from-ahmedabad-surat-airports-in-2024

Colombo, December 31 (Daily Mirror) – A 45-year old businessman was arrested for smuggling foreign cigarettes and whisky worth Rs. 10 million, at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning by the Airport Police. The suspect is a resident of Prince of Wales Road, Colombo 14 and frequently engaging in air travel for business purposes.

He had arrived at the Katunayake Airport on December 31 at 3:50 a.m. aboard an Indigo Airlines flight (6E-1164) from Bangalore, India.

https://www.dailymirror.lk/breaking-news/Businessman-arrested-for-smuggling-Rs-10-million-worth-of-cigarettes-and-whisky/108-299157#

Ahmedabad’s Special Operations Group (SOG) has uncovered a significant counterfeit currency racket. The investigation, spanning months, has led to the recovery of 9,837 fake currency notes of various denominations in 2024.These notes, detected primarily when unsuspecting individuals attempted to deposit them in banks, amount to a total of ₹43.11 lakh.

The case sheds light on a pressing issue in India’s financial system: counterfeit currency infiltrating the market and going unnoticed until random detection. The investigation was initiated earlier this year after multiple banks, including ICICI, Axis, HDFC, Yes Bank, and SBI, reported suspicious notes.

https://english.gujaratsamachar.com/news/gujarat/year-end-shock-over-9-800-fake-notes-worth-43-11-lakh-recovered-in-ahmedabad-banks