2 Customs officials booked for “abetting gold smuggling”
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The CBI has booked two Superintendents of the Customs Department, earlier posted with the Air Intelligence Unit on the worldwide airport in Ahmedabad, for allegedly facilitating gold smuggling from Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
The officials have been recognized as Somnath Chaudhary and Sujeet Kumar. The different accused individuals are Sajahan Chowdhury, Shahidul Chowdhury, Mohamad Sarfraj, Shamim and Mohammed Azam.
It is alleged that some individuals based mostly in Gujarat’s Vapi had been smuggling in gold within the type of paste and jewelry, through the Ahmedabad airport, by roping in carriers. Two such alleged couriers, Sahidul and Sarfraj, had been intercepted on the airport on June 27, 2019, by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence’s zonal unit.
A gold chain weighing over 1.4 kg and gold paste weighing 1.83 kg, from which pure gold of 1.127 kg was extracted, 10 kg saffron of Iranian origin and 4,000 ‘gutkha’ pouches had been seized from them.
Sajahan and his brother ran a jewelry store within the title of Tinku Bhai Jewellers in Vapi. They additionally had a gold refinery. The gold was to be delivered to him, as alleged.
Sajahan, Shadidul and Sarfraj had been arrested on June 29, 2019, beneath the Customs Act. Further probe revealed that they, in conspiracy with Shamim of Dubai and Mohammed Azam of Mumbai, had smuggled in over 13 kg of 24-carat gold price over ₹4.7 crore over the previous a number of months. The accused Customs officials prolonged favours to them in lieu of financial features.
Somnath Chaudhary was additionally arrested beneath the Customs Act on August 6, 2019.
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