Three senior citizens held for smuggling foreign currencies worth Rs36 lakh

Mumbai: The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Customs on Friday arrested thee persons, including a NRI couple, for allegedly attempting to smuggle foreign currencies worth Rs36 lakh to Singapore.
Lalchand Vaswani, 78, and his wife Pushpa, 71, holding Singapore passports and Choith Harcha-ndani, 49, an Indian passport holder, were arrested under theCustoms Act 1962 and Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) 1999. An AIU officer informed that they recovered US Dollars 30,600, Singapore Dollars 61,760 and Euro 2,500 from the couple.However, the trio were released on a bail of Rs1.5 lakh each by the Esplanade court, defence lawyer Ravi Hirani said and added that his clients were falsely implicated in the case.
AIU officials intercepted three passengers at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport while they were on their way to board the Singapore Airlines flight.
20/09/09 Dayanand Kamath/Daliy News & Analysis

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Categories: Airports Sep 2009, Foreign Sep 2009