Four held for smuggling liquor from Telangana
Officials of the Special Enforcement Bureau (SEB) and the police seized 1,000 liquor bottles being transported illegally in a car from Telangana, and arrested four persons, at the Anasagaram checkpost on Friday.
The accused had reportedly concealed the liquor stocks inside the vehicle doors and the seats. The Non-Duty Paid Liquor (NDPL) was seized during regular vehicle checking at the Anasagaram checkpost on the A.P.-Telangana border, officials said.
SEB ASP Vakul Jindal said that the liquor bottles along with the vehicle was seized. The liquor was being transported from Suryapet district to Nandigama. An investigation is on, the ASP said.
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7 arrested for running fake Remdesivir injection factory in Uttarakhand, already sold 2,000 injections
Seven people were arrested for running a fake Remdesivir injection manufacturing unit in Kotdwar in Uttarakhand. The accused were arrested after the Delhi Police conducted raids in Kotdwar, Roorkee and Haridwar.
Police also recovered 196 fake “ready to sell fake Remdesivir injections” and 3,000 empty vials from the spot. Moreover, police found the accused have already sold 2,000 fake Remdesivir injections.
The accused used to sell fake Remdesivir injection for Rs 25,000, police said. Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava took to Twitter to inform about the incident.
“In all 196 ready to sell fake Remdesivir injections were seized. From the premises, packing machines, 3000 empty vials for packing Ramdesivir were recovered. Accused further disclosed that he already sold 2,000 fake Remdesivir injections to desperate people,” SN Shrivastava said in a tweet on Friday.
A team of police has been formed to gather information about those who have been given these fake injections.
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Airport customs team foils gold smuggling attempt
PANAJI/VASCO: The air intelligence wing of Goa Customs foiled an attempt to smuggle gold on Tuesday with the seizure of 512g of gold valued at Rs 21.8 lakh. Customs sleuths have nabbed a West Bengal resident who is part of the smuggling ring.
A team of customs officials headed by assistant commissioner of customs Y B Sahare apprehended the passenger after he landed at Goa International Airport aboard IndiGo flight 6E 6913.
Aside from the gold, officials also found four different Aadhaar cards with different names with the passenger. “The investigation so far has revealed that smuggled gold was brought by an international passenger from Dubai to Kochi airport and was purposely left in the flight with knowledge that the same aircraft would fly from Kochi to Hyderabad and on to Goa,” said commisioner of Goa customs Mihir Ranjan.
The West Bengal resident picked up the gold blocks at Hyderabad and flew to Goa. He was apprehended by Goa Customs with assistance from a directorate of revenue intelligence officer. Earlier in January, customs sleuths had foiled a similar attempt to smuggle gold with a Kolkata resident being detained at Dabolim.
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2.7 kg gold seized from passenger at Hyderabad Airport
Hyderabad, April 29 (IANS) Customs officials at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday seized 2.7 kg gold from a passenger who arrived from Dubai.
The passenger had concealed the 24-carat gold bar, valued at Rs 1.36 crore, in a pasta making machine.
The Customs Department booked the passenger for smuggling of gold and said further investigations are in progress.
Last week, 386 grams of gold was seized from a passenger who had arrived from Dubai.
According to officials, the gold in paste form was concealed in the inner layers of specially-designed T-shirt. A total of 386 gms of gold valued at Rs 19.1 lakh was recovered and seized.
Customs filed a case of smuggling against the accused.
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Covid crisis boosts India’s trade in fake medicines
As India is engulfed by a second wave of coronavirus infections, which is swamping big cities, its people have rushed to the black market to buy drugs for treatment. Neighbourhood WhatsApp groups in the capital city of New Delhi buzz with urgent pleas for sellers of everything from oxygen to remdesivir, an antiviral used in India to treat Covid-19.
In Pune, a city in the hard-hit state of Maharashtra, four people were arrested this month for selling fake vials of remdesivir for Rs35,000 ($464), far above the official Rs2,000 ($27) price cap for the genuine product. Police said the men had sold at least seven vials filled with liquid paracetamol to a relative of a coronavirus patient. Further south, in Mysuru, in the state of Karnataka, a nurse at a private hospital was arrested for selling remdesivir vials that had been refilled with antibiotics and saline solution.
“In times like these, where you see high numbers for tocilizumab — an arthritis drug — and remdesivir, this is a ripe area for people to make up this stuff and slap labels on,” says Dinesh Thakur, a former pharma executive who works as a public health activist in the US. An estimated one in 10 medical products in low- and middle-income countries is substandard or falsified, according to the World Health Organization.
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Lucknow Customs Bust Syndicate Using Specially Designed Underwear to Smuggle Gold, Woman Held
Top gold smuggling syndicate, using specially designed undergarments to smuggle gold paste in the country, has been busted. The syndicate had hired women couriers, wearing these special undergarments to smuggle gold in form of paste. One of the key couriers, a 39-year-old woman, was arrested at Lucknow airport on Monday with 1,259 grams of yellow paste, hidden in specially designed brassiere and underpants.
Top sources in Customs (Preventive) unit of Lucknow revealed to IANS that a young woman, originally hailing from Turkman gate, Delhi, travelling from Dubai, landed from flight no FZ 8325 on April 26, 2021. On specific input, she was intercepted while trying to exit from the airport. “When the ladies staff searched her, yellow paste was recovered from the undergarments worn by the courier. The yellow paste, packed in black polythene and stitched in her brassiere was recovered,” revealed a Customs source.
The accused was produced before the Special Chief Judicial Magistrate (Customs), Lucknow on April 27, wherein she was remanded to judicial custody.
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CBP Officers in Cincinnati Seize $4.26 Million in Fake Jewelry
CINCINNATI— On April 26, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Cincinnati seized 9,377 pieces of jewelry from a shipment originating in China and destined to an address in McAllen, Texas.
Officers inspected the shipment on March 30 and found thousands of jewelry items bearing protected trademarks from Tiffany, Pandora, Cartier, Bvlgari, Dior, Gucci, Chanel, Rolex, Versace, and Tous. Unprotected “generic” jewelry was comingled in the same box with protected jewelry that was undervalued on the invoice. Officers reached out to CBP’s Centers of Excellence and Expertise (CEE), and an import specialist determined the jewelry was counterfeit. Had they been genuine, the items would have been worth more than $4.2 million although the declared value was only $119.
“Intellectual property theft harms the U.S. economy and threatens the security, health, and safety of the American people,” said Cincinnati Port Director Richard Gillespie. “Our officers are committed to protecting private industry and consumers and ensuring that legal trade continues to power our economy.”
CBP has established an educational initiative to raise consumer awareness about the consequences and dangers that are often associated with the purchase of counterfeit and pirated goods. Information about the Truth Behind Counterfeits public awareness campaign can be found at https://www.cbp.gov/FakeGoodsRealDangers.
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1,025 cases of smuggled liquor seized
The police made a big haul of smuggled liquor with the seizure of 1,025 cases from a closed-body truck (bearing registration No. HR 38T 4611) which was stopped for checking in the wee hours on Sunday near the Janta Nagar cut on the basis of a tip-off by a police party comprising Inspector Yash Pal Sharma, in-charge, anti-smuggling cell/CIA-3, and ASI Kashmir Singh, along with officials of the Excise Department.
While the driver of the truck and his assistant managed to give the police the slip by taking advantage of the darkness, search of the abandoned truck led to the recovery of 500 cases (each carrying 12 bottles of 750 ml) of McDowell No 1 whisky, 300 cases of McDowell No 1 whisky (each carrying 48 nips of 180 ml), 75 cases (each carrying 12 bottles of 750 ml) of Royal Challenge whisky and 150 cases (each carrying 48 nips of 180 ml) of Royal Challenge whisky.
The police have impounded the truck carrying the illicit liquor and the unidentified accused have been booked under Sections 61, 78(2), 1 and 14 of the Excise Act at the Division No. 6 police station. The police have launched search operations to apprehend the accused who are behind the big racket of liquor smuggling.
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/ludhiana/1-025-cases-of-smuggled-liquor-seized-244844
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Kochi: Police seize fake currency worth Rs 1.8 crore, 5 arrested
KOCHI: Kochi city police and the anti-terrorism squad (ATS) of the state police seized fake currency to the tune of Rs 1.8 crore from Coimbatore in a joint operation and arrested five people on Thursday. The seizure was made in an operation which began on Wednesday late night and continued through the early hours of Thursday.
According to police, follow-up investigation by Udayamperoor police into the seizure of fake currency amounting to Rs 1.74 lakh on March 27 led the police to the Coimbatore gang.
City police commissioner Nagaraju Chakilam said that the inputs from DIG Anup Kuruvila John who heads the ATS of the state police was instrumental in the operation.
The arrested have been identified as Rasheed from Thrissur, Syed Sultan and Ashraf Ali from Coimbatore and two others who were arrested in the early hours of Thursday. With this, the total number of arrested persons in the Udayamperoor fake currency case has risen to nine. Police have also seized scanners and printers from the accused. The seized fake currencies were in the denomination of Rs 2,000.
Senior officers said that the accused had circulated about 90 currencies of Rs 2,000 denomination at various places and the sleuths tracked and seized each one of those bills. The core members of the racket used to provide two Rs 2,000 fake notes to the secondary links for a single original currency note of the same denomination.
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Jaipur: Police seize 750 remdesivir injections; arrest 6
JAIPUR: The crime branch has arrested six persons for selling remdesivir injections at Rs 15,000 a piece and seized 750 ampoules from them on Wednesday.
The injections are used for Covid patients in emergency situation. The arrested include medical store owner Jayprakash Verma, three agents — Dalveer Singh, Vikas Mittal, Basant Kumar — and two suppliers — Vickram Gujjar and Shankar Mali. All are residents of Harmada and Murlipura in Jaipur.
Following complaints, policemen in the guise of customers visited 48 medical stores looking for two remdesivir injections in the city. “Jayprakash, who runs a samarth medical store asked for Rs 15,000 per injection. When the deal was agreed, one Dalveer Singh brought two injections to the store. After both were arrested, they said one Vikas Mittal gave it to them following which he was apprehended along with one Basant Kumar,” said Digant Anand, DCP (crime) of Jaipur Police Commissionerate.
Following the chain, Jangid told police that Vickram Gujjar and Shankar Mali are providing these injections in the city. “Jangid and Gujjar said they purchased 725 such injections from Gurugram for selling at a high price in Jaipur. They didn’t have any license to sell any drugs and were taking advantage of the health emergency,” said Anand. The seized injections were sent to the forensic to see if they were real or fake.
The suppliers have tied up with the medical stores and they provide them on-demand in several parts of the city. Police are also probing if they have any connection with the hospital staff.
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