Ahmedabad: A passenger at Ahmedabad airport was held with Rs. 35.36 lakh worth of gold after he arrived from Sharjah on an Air Arabia flight. On Thursday morning, a Uttar Pradesh-bound passenger was caught by the Customs department as he was in possession of 399.460 grams of 24-karat gold. He had placed the gold in the handle of a luggage trolley. The passenger was from Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh. Since January 1st this year, the Customs department has recovered gold worth Rs. 4.71 crore from p...Read More

Ahmedabad: The Department of Customs seized 63,000 US dollars from two passengers at SVPI Airport here. Residents of Ahmedabad, both passengers were traveling to Dubai on a SpiceJet flight 015 scheduled to depart at 4:35 pm. Upon suspicion, when their bags were checked at Terminal 2 by the Air Intelligence Unit, one bag contained 31,000 USD while the other had 32,000 USD. As the value of the seized US dollars was less than Rs. 1 crore, the passengers were not arrested. DeshGujaratRead More

Ahmedabad: A passenger was held at the Ahmedabad airport terminal - 2 on Wednesday with 19,000 Americal dollars concealed in his chappal. The passenger was about to board the Spice Jet flight SG015 scheduled at 4.41 pm to Dubai from SVPI airport. He had cocealed the dollars worth Rs. 16 lakh Indian Rupees in his chappal. Based on the information, the accused Mohammad Ilyas was checked thoroughly by the customs department staffers and the cash of 19,000 American dollars was recovered from his cha...Read More

Kandla: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) today nabbed the head constable of the Customs department at the Kandla-based Special Economic Zone for bribery. According to the ACB, the accused, Ishak Abdulkarim Sama, head constable of the Customs department, sought a Rs. 3,000 bribe from a labor management firm to allow the entry of laborers through the gate of the Kandla Special Economic Zone (SEZ). As the labor management firm owner was unwilling to pay the bribe, he contacted the ACB's Gandh...Read More

Ahmedabad: Directorate of Revenue Intelligence(DRI) has recovered Rs. 1.50 crore worth smuggled gold from four persons including two women passengers at Ahmedabad's SVPI airport. Two women passengers from Abu Dhabi - Murtaza Ali Bhopalwala and Farida Bhopalwala had carried gold in the form of paste filled in capsules in their private parts of body. Gold was given to them by one Aziz in Abu Dbahi. It was to be handed over to Dilmir Alim Saiyed Pirzada in Ahmedabad. Aziz had given Pirzada's con...Read More

Surat: 550 grams of gold contained in two capsules were found in the private parts of a lady who arrived at Surat airport from Dubai. The lady, who arrived on an Indigo flight at around 5:30 pm, is from Pardi in the Valsad district. She was stopped by the Customs department staff on suspicion. It was found that she had visited Dubai four times in a year and returned. During screening, it was realized that she had smuggled items in her private parts. With the permission of the court, her X-...Read More

Ahmedabad: Airport authorities at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) Airport seized around 5 kg of gold dust concealed in plastic plates. The gold seized on Wednesday is estimated to be worth Rs 33.9 crore, considering the market price of gold at Rs 67,800 per 10 grams in the city on that day. Authorities from the air intelligence unit (AIU) of Ahmedabad Customs, who handled the operation, confirmed the gold's origin from abroad but declined to provide further specifics. It is l...Read More

Mundra: Anti Corruption Burea (ACB) of Gujarat Police has nabbed two Superintendents of Customs department at Mundra in Kutch along with a middleman. The accused are identified as Shailesh Gangdev (Superintendent of Customs, class 2 officer), Alokkumar Dube, Superintendent of Customs (Preventive department, class 2 officer), and middleman Ramesh Gadhvi. According to ACB, a complainant in this case had ordered handbags from abroad, a container of which arrived at Mundra port. The accused cu...Read More

Ahmedabad: A female passenger arriving at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) Airport from Abu Dhabi was found concealing gold paste within a sanitary pad during a customs inspection. The concealed gold weighed 736.36 grams, valued at approximately Rs. 49 lakhs. This incident marks the third case of gold smuggling at the airport in the last 10 days. Customs officials, with the help of passenger profiling, identified the woman on suspicion of gold smuggling. The inspection took place...Read More

Surat: The Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB), the world's largest office complex spanning 68,17,050 sq ft with a total of 4,200 offices, now boasts its dedicated customs house. The central government has allocated a custom clearance house specifically for SDB. Dinesh Navadiya, chairman of the customs committee of SDB, remarked, "Following our request to the finance minister to facilitate import-export operations, we have been granted India's largest custom clearance house, initially staffed with 11 ...Read More