Kutch(Gujarat): A joint team of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) team on Saturday seized 2,00,400 e-Cigarettes worth Rs 48 crore after intercepting two containers imported from China at the Mundra Port in Kutch. During the investigation, the police also recovered a misdeclaration attempting to change the bill of the landing of both the containers and sending them further to Dubai.
The confiscation was executed in a joint operation by the Surat and Ahmedabad DRI after the authorities received information about a container arriving from China to the Mundra Port reportedly containing suspicious materials. The alerted authorities thereafter initiated the investigation based on these inputs.
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This is the second such case of confiscation in the state. The central investigative agencies had earlier recovered a large number of e-Cigarettes near Surat in a container released from the Mundra Port. A probe into the seizure of e-Cigarettes at Mundra and Kandla ports was conducted. With the import of e-cigarettes banned in the country, the officials are now trying to trace more clues about the ongoing illegal import-export from the state.
