The Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of the Pune Customs Department has truly found a hawala noise entailing the buck, valued at round Rs 3.47 crore, and captured 2 people within the occasion, a policeman said on Tuesday.
According to info firm PTI, the Pune Customs Department, in a information launch supplied on Tuesday, specified that the implicated have truly been acknowledged as 41-year-old Khushbu Agarwal, a touring consultant, and Mumbai- based mostly Mohd Aamir, that had truly supplied the worldwide cash.
Authorities have truly taken worldwide cash of assorted nations from a international alternate firm in Mumbai.
The exercise complied with particulars information on a major quantity of worldwide cash hid in between the online pages of word pads and positioned inside 2 cart baggage smuggled out of India by a person making use of unwary 3 vacationers from Dubai to the town by a Spice Jet journey on February 17, PTI reported.
The AIU policemans carried out searches of the baggage along with of the vacationers and recouped USD 400,100, akin to round Rs 3.47 crore from the baggage, based mostly on the launch.
Their examination uncovered that they have been trainees, whereas the baggage got here from Agarwal.
“Agarwal had given the travel package to these three students for their Dubai Trip. At the last minute before departure from Pune, she handed over two bags to students on the pretext that they contained her office documents urgently required at her Dubai office. The students accepted these bags and departed from Pune,” the launch said.
AIU policemans at Pune Airport restrained Agarwal and taped her declarations underneath the Customs Act.
After she admitted to possessing the said worldwide cash, the policemans, based mostly upon extra inspecting, despatched out a search group to a Forex firm in Mumbai and captured Aamir, that had truly supplied the bucks, the Customs Department said.
During the search of the said firm, worldwide cash of various nations have been likewise found on the properties.
AIU and Customs policemans carried out searches at 10 areas in Pune, Ahmedabad, and Mumbai within the occasion, PTI reported.
The 2 implicated have been despatched out to judicial guardianship.
Mumbai Customs take medicines price Rs 10.22 crore at flight terminal
The Mumbai Customs on Wednesday said that the authorities at Mumbai flight terminal took medicines price Rs 10.22 crore.
According to the personalizeds division, the authorities on the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMI) in Mumbai made a substantial medicine seizure and so they seized 1.022 kilos of thought drug and Methaqualone, with an approximated market value of round Rs 10.22 crore.
On February 16, 2025, a traveler getting right here from Entebbe in Uganda, on Ugandan Airlines journey UR 430 was obstructed by the authorities and all through inspecting, the traveler revealed indicators of tension and confessed to ingesting drugs together with a white, fallen aside materials regarded as a narcotics, the personalizeds division said.
It said that the personalizeds authorities, with the consent of the judicial Justice of the Peace, took the traveler for medical steering to recoup the consumed drugs. Over the next 3 days, the traveler eliminated an general of 84 drugs, contemplating 1.022 kilos in general.
“The substance was confirmed to be suspected cocaine and Methaqualone,” said an authorities.
The authorities said that the traveler was apprehended underneath the preparations of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and extra examinations have been underway.
(With PTI inputs)
