Smuggling in India Report 2017-18 unveiled!
Extensive
discussions held to counter drugs,
Precious
metals & stones, money laundering & black economy!
DRI
discussions held on 4th and 5th December
The
Union Finance Minister Shri Jaitley unveiled “Smuggling in India Report
2017-18” which analyses organized smuggling trends on topics such as Gold &
Foreign Currency, Narcotic Drugs, Security, Environment, Commercial Frauds.
Excerpts of this report are enclosed.
The
Inaugural Function was followed by the 5th Regional Customs Enforcement Meeting
where the Heads of Customs Enforcement of 21 countries from South-Asia,
West-Asia and Asia-pacific, apart from representatives from WCO, Interpol,
UNODC and RILO AP were invited.
During
the two day meeting, there was special emphasis on sharing of data and
intelligence between different Customs administrations. Extensive discussions
were held regarding mutual strategy to counter organized crime related to
drugs, precious metals & stones, money laundering and black economy.
Presentations
on these subjects were made by Interpol, World Customs Organization (WCO),
Iran, Mauritius and Australia. DRI made the presentation on ‘Data Exchange to
Control Illicit Trade’, highlighting the need, relevance, benefit and
challenges for effective exchange of Customs data and proposed a four-stage
model. This was followed by another presentation by DRI on ‘Drug Trafficking,
Smuggling and Organized Financial Crime’.
Interpol
outlined the important steps taken in recent times to promote Police-Customs
co-operation. The presentation from WCO outlined the strategy and operations
against drugs and NPS trafficking. Iran gave a detailed presentation on various
kinds of narcotics seizures made by them. UNODC (South Asia), gave a brief
overview of the mandate of UNODC which includes combating, apart from drugs and
organized crime, terrorism, smuggling and corruption.
The
delegate from Mauritius in his presentation laid great emphasis on sharing of
information and intelligence on real-time basis. The last presentation was from
Australia who elaborated on ‘Passenger profiling and Targeting capability’ and
explained their layered approach in profiling, which was highly appreciated. All
the participating countries agreed to co-operate closely and counter the
organized cross-border crime.
Directorate
of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), the anti-smuggling intelligence and
investigation agency functioning under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and
Customs (CBIC), observed its 61st Founding Day and concluded Regional Customs
Enforcement Meeting (RCEM) on 4th and 5th December, 2018 in New Delhi.
The
Union Finance Minister congratulated the DRI and its officers on their
performance and exhorted the DRI to maintain high integrity and professional
standards, and endeavour to become a ‘near perfect’ organization. Shri Jaitley
laid out certain cardinal principles for investigative agencies, including the
need to be guided by one sole purpose, which is detection of crime.
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