Finance Ministry released ‘Smuggling in India Report 2019-20’

Finance Ministry has released the Smuggling in India Report 2019-20 which analyses organised smuggling trends on Gold and Foreign Currency, Narcotic Drugs, Security, Environment and Commercial Frauds.

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The report has been compiled by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI).

The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence detected 412 cases of smuggling resulting in the seizure of contraband worth ₹1,949 crore in 2019-20. It arrested 837 economic offenders and also unearthed 761 complex cases of Customs duty evasion amounting to ₹2,183 crore.

On the occasion, the DRI Utkrisht Seva Samman, 2020 was awarded to Sankaran, an officer of the 1961 batch of the Indian Revenue Service.

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