Mumbai: A foreign currency smuggling racket involving many millions of dollars and an organised syndicate has been busted by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI). Eight suspected racketeers have been arrested. In an overnight operation that spanned the length and breadth of Terminal 2 of the city airport, a crack team of DRI, acting on a tip-off from abroad, intercepted four passengers headed to Dubai and Bangkok in two separate flights.
The passengers were detained just as they were about to board their respective flights. Upon searching their hand baggage, $410,000 (Rs 2.75 crore) was found to be concealed in four laptop bags.
"The cartel was smuggling out foreign currency. Some members would be booked for domestic travel through Air India while a few others for international travel, all within a few hours of each other. The foreign currency to be smuggled would be carried by the domestic passengers, who would hand it over in thoroughly sealed laptop bags to their partners travelling abroad, at the T2 food court," said a DRI official.
27/07/18 Somendra Sharma/DNA
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The passengers were detained just as they were about to board their respective flights. Upon searching their hand baggage, $410,000 (Rs 2.75 crore) was found to be concealed in four laptop bags.
"The cartel was smuggling out foreign currency. Some members would be booked for domestic travel through Air India while a few others for international travel, all within a few hours of each other. The foreign currency to be smuggled would be carried by the domestic passengers, who would hand it over in thoroughly sealed laptop bags to their partners travelling abroad, at the T2 food court," said a DRI official.
27/07/18 Somendra Sharma/DNA
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