Rs 7 Lakh Worth Of Fake Currency Notes Recovered In Guwahati
GUWAHATI: Police on Tuesday, April 19, recovered fake Indian currency with a face value of Rs 7 lakh from the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT) in Guwahati. One person has been arrested in this connection.
The arrested person has been identified as Kinder M Sangma, a resident of South Garo Hills in Meghalaya.
“A WGPD team from Gorchuk PS arrested one Kinder M Sangma of South Garo Hills, Meghalaya with FICN worth ₹7 lakhs at ISBT today. Further investigation is on and legal action has been initiated,” the Guwahati Police announced on Twitter.
The accused was reportedly in the process of leaving Guwahati in a bus for Tura in Meghalaya when he was arrested. Police recovered the Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) worth Rs 7 lakh during a search of his belongings.
Lear MoreGold and electronic goods worth Rs 60.16 lakh seized at Chennai airport
CHENNAI: Air customs sleuths seized gold weighing 606 gram from a passenger, who arrived from Sharjah, and from the driver of a battery operated shuttle vehicle at Chennai airport on Sunday. The two people were arrested.
Following a tip-off, customs officials intercepted the passenger who arrived here in an Air Arabia flight on Saturday. A check revealed that he had hidden gold inside electronics. The passenger had concealed the gold in refurbished mobile phones, along with various electronic goods.
A total of 475 gram of gold was seized from a driver. The gold was handed over to him by an unknown passenger who arrived from Colombo in an Air India flight. Gold weighing 1.08 kg and electronic goods worth Rs 60.16 lakh were seized.
Lear MoreSmugglers still prefer trains for transportation
GUWAHATI: Trains continue to be a preferred mode of transportation of contraband goods for smugglers, and this fact is borne out by data shared by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and Government Railway Police (GRP). According to the data, apart from narcotic substances, the smuggled items include gold, foreign cigarettes, foreign garments, areca nuts etc.
According to the GRP, around 3,000 packets of contraband foreign cigarettes were seized in 2021 from various railway stations of the State, which marked a sharp increase from the 390 packets seized in 2020. However, the low amount of seizures could be attributed to the severe COVID-19 situation. The corresponding figure for 2019 was 4,410 packets of foreign cigarettes.
The GPF also seized 10,318.44 gm of gold in 2019, followed by 3,103.03 gm in 2020 and 583.330 gm in 2021. On the other hand, the RPF seized around 2.22 lakh sticks of contraband foreign cigarettes from the Guwahati Railway Station in 2021 alone. This apart, the RPF also seize foreign garments worth around Rs 6 lakh in 2021.
https://www.sentinelassam.com/topheadlines/smugglers-still-prefer-trains-for-transportation-587879
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Smuggled goods seized from train
LAHORE:Railway police raided the Jaffar Express at Lahore railway station and seized 69 cartons of smuggled goods worth Rs4.1 million.
Police officials said the smuggled goods brought from Quetta included foreign cigarettes, chocolates, biscuits, betel nut, naswar and aphrodisiacs.
They said Railway Police Inspector General Faisal Shahkar had ordered action after receiving a tip that non-customs-paid goods worth millions of rupees were being brought from Quetta on Jaffar Express.
Railway Police SHO Irfan Ashraf raided the luggage coach of the train and seized 69 cartons of goods estimated to be worth Rs4.1 million that had been brought to Lahore from Quetta.
The IG of Railway police said after the raid that action would be taken again the use of trains in any illegal activity, including smuggling.
In August last year, the railway police foiled a bid to smuggle Rs9.4 million worth of counterfeit currency and chemicals used in their production after arresting four suspects.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2352964/smuggled-goods-seized-from-train
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Italian Financial Police Seize 82 Tonnes of Counterfeit Cigarettes
Italian police seized 82 tonnes of counterfeit cigarettes and arrested one person during a raid of an abandoned factory in the industrial area of Pomezia, close to Rome, where officers found machinery and materials for the production of cigarettes and several foreign workers, including a number of Ukrainian refugees.
Pomezia is known for high volumes of mafia activity. Thursday’s seizure is one of the largest in counterfeit cigarettes in Italy in recent years, with 44 tonnes of them already packaged and 38 tonnes of tobacco still to be processed. It has all been submitted for destruction.
The value of the seizure is estimated at well over 19 million euros (US$21 million) in tax evasion.
Authorities said that the 10 workers they found were Russians, Moldovans, and Ukrainians who were forced to work under extreme conditions, including long hours, unventilated space, and no windows.
Several local institutions have made accommodation available to the exploited workers since the raid took place.
Police said the individual they arrested is the owner of the illegal factory. The investigation showed that the suspect has a prior record of smuggling, counterfeiting, illicit intermediation, and labour exploitation charges.
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Fake cosmetics manufacturing unit busted in Faridabad, two arrested
A team of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Department has busted a factory manufacturing and supplying counterfeit cosmetic products of some well-known brands here. Two persons have been arrested in this connection.
An FDA official said finished goods and raw material worth Rs50 lakh was recovered from the unit. He said the racket surfaced after a raid was carried out by the FDA team last night at house NMo. 634, Sector 62, here on the basis of tip-off and inputs.
The unit located on the house premises was illegally manufacturing cosmetic items under the brand name of Lakme and Fitme of Hindustan Uniliver (HUL).
Karan Godara, Senior Drug Control Officer (SDCO), who led the team, said the department had been following illegal activities in the area for the past few months.
A raid finally met with success with the arrest of the two main accused manufacturing spurious cosmetics, he said. A huge cache of fake products manufactured during the past six months was recovered from the unit, he said.
Lear MoreCustoms seizes cigarettes valued at Rs 17 lakh
The Delhi Customs Department has recently seized over one lakh foreign cigarettes valued at Rs 17 lakh from a private logistics godown here, an official said on Sunday.
“The smugglers have adopted a new trend as the goods were hid inside iron trunks. Cigarette brands such as Gudang Garam and Esse Light were recovered from there. Upon suspicion, we checked the iron trunks inside which the cigarette packets were concealed,” an official said.
The Customs sleuths were trying to trace the receiver of the seized items.
One of them has been identified and will be served a notice. A case under Section 132 of the Customs Act has been registered against him.
https://www.canindia.com/customs-seizes-cigarettes-valued-at-rs-17-lakh/
Lear MoreBOC: P91 billion smuggled goods seized under Duterte’s term
MANILA, Philippines — Smuggled goods including illegal drugs valued at more than P91 billion were confiscated by government agents as the smuggling of various products intensified during the implementation of pandemic lockdowns, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) reported yesterday.
Data obtained by The STAR showed that the BOC seized a total of P91.15 billion worth of smuggled imports from July 2016 to March this year, with only one quarter left in President Duterte’s term.
Nearly 43 percent of the smuggled products amounting to P39.06 billion were confiscated during the pandemic: P10.63 billion in 2020 and P28.43 billion in 2021.
According to the BOC, illegal drugs accounted for 19 percent of the volume at P16.91 billion, with the bulk of the haul at P6.63 billion confiscated in 2017.
In the first quarter of 2022, Customs agents prevented the entry of P3.89 billion worth of smuggled goods. Of the figure, 39 percent or P1.53 billion consisted of illegal drugs. The BOC also confiscated shipping containers of counterfeit products at different ports.
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More Than $300,000 Worth of Electronic Vaporisers and Components Seized at Tuas Checkpoint
On 5 and 7 April 2022, Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) officers at Tuas Checkpoint detected 1,200 electronic vaporisers (e-vaporisers) and more than 49,000 e-vaporiser related components concealed in various compartments of three Malaysian-registered lorries entering Singapore. The street value of the seized e-vaporisers and components is estimated to be more than $300,000.
On 5 April, ICA officers foiled an attempt to smuggle 1,200 pieces of disposable e-vaporisers into Singapore via a Malaysian-registered lorry transporting resin. The officers had directed the lorry for further checks and uncovered the disposable e-vaporisers hidden behind the driver and passenger’s seats, and below the passenger’s leg rest area.
On 7 April, ICA officers foiled two other attempts to smuggle e-vaporiser refill pods into Singapore via two Malaysia-registered lorries. In the first attempt, officers found black bags hidden behind the driver and passenger’s seats and uncovered a total of 36,270 e-vaporisers refill pods. In the second attempt, officers uncovered several bundles of black trash bags containing 13,125 pieces of e-vaporiser refill pods concealed underneath a blanket behind the driver and passenger’s seats.
Lear MoreCase filed in CMM court in fake Covid medicines’ case
Kanpur: Gangs which supplied fake medicines during the Covid second wave in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand had been busted by the crime branch of UP Police last year. Now the lab reports have also confirmed that the medicines sold by such gangs were fake. Most of the drugs were antibiotics and pain relievers. The drug department had sent the samples for laboratory tests.
After sending the report to the government and the Kanpur district magistrate on behalf of the drugs department, a case was filed in the CMM court here on March 31.
To recall, the STF had arrested several people and seized 268 fake Remdesivir injections in Babupurwa locality of the city. After this the crime branch became active and the team led by the then ADCP Deepak Bhukar raided Uttarakhand and several cities, including Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Aligarh and Hapur. During this period, there was a huge seizure of medicines, besides raw material for making medicines, packing machines, wrappers, etc. The drug department had sent the samples of these drugs to the laboratory for testing. Now after the investigation report, it came to fore that all these medicines were fake.
The drugs department filed a case on March 31 in the local Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court after the medicines were found to be counterfeit.
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