MUMBAI: Directorate Revenue of Intelligence (DRI) busted a gold smuggling racket and arrested three persons from Chennai after seizing 5kg gold worth Rs 2.3 crore, cleverly concealed in a rotor machine.
DRI (Mumbai unit) arrested Ayyambalath Razack, Kader Mohideen H and Prakash Dhariwal for smuggling gold through shipments imported from Dubai.
Based on specific intelligence, DRI officials intercepted a consignment imported by Arihant Tex, based in Chennai. The parcel was intercepted at the international terminal at Sahar on August 2. Officials said they noticed a rotor machine, which on breaking open resulted in the recovery of gold.
“The consignment was to be delivered in Chennai. With the help of Chennai zonal unit officers, DRI arrested the three,” said an official.
The three were produced before additional chief metropolitan magistrate, economic offences-I, at Egmore, Chennai, and were brought to Mumbai last week. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate, Esplanade, Mumbai, remanded them to judicial custody till August 28.
