DRI officials bust another attempt at smuggling of rare wood worth Rs2 crore.
Following a lead they received at Inland Container Deport (ICD) in Ludhiana, officials of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 10 tonnes of rare red sandalwood from Mundra port on Monday evening. The consignment worth about Rs2 crore was to be shipped to United Arab Emirates (UAE). It was the third such seizure at Mundra in last one week.
According to highly placed sources in DRI and Customs, the consignment was concealed in insulators used in making electric towers and was loaded in a truck. Sources said a team of DRI officials from Delhi arrived at the port on Monday and discovered rare wood that had landed at Forbes container crate station.
“The DRI officials busted a major consignment racket at ICD Ludhiana. They had received the information that one consignment had arrived at Mundra port. The officials arrived at the port on Monday evening and found the consignment weighing 10 tonnes worth Rs2 crore in the international market,” sources said.
Sources said that the DRI had busted a major red sandalwood consignment about 100 tonnes in Ludhiana. They said that the consignment which was seized at Mundra port had arrived from South India via Ludhiana and Rajasthan. If sources are to be believed, the DRI sleuths have also caught a person in Chennai in this connection and he is believed to be a big catch in the smuggling racket.
Last week, the Customs officials at Mundra port had seized two consignments weighing 20 tonnes worth Rs2 crore.
These consignments had arrived at the port from a Jaipur-based shipper. Sources said that in this case, the name of one Sanjay Mathur of Jaipur had cropped up who is said to have gone underground.
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