DRI seizes cigarettes worth Rs 23 cr at Surat port
In one of the biggest foreign cigarette hauls, officials from Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) at Surat identified and detained six containers from Dubai trying to smuggle imported cigarettes worth Rs 23.29 crore into the country.
While, two of the containers were supposed to contain waste paper, the remaining four were to contain LDPE regrind. The containers were under transshipment from Adani Hazira Port, Surat, and had been imported by two Bhuj-based parties.
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/dri-seizes-smuggled-cigarettes-worth-rs-25-cr/
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