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Mumbai Customs seize hydroponic weed worth Rs 19.8 crore, foreign currency at airport

Mumbai Customs Zone-III officers seized suspected hydroponic weed worth nearly Rs 19.8 crore and foreign currency worth Rs 93.45 lakh in three separate cases at Mumbai airport. The contraband was recovered from passengers arriving from Bangkok and Jamnagar

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Mumbai Customs recovered USD 100,000 (around Rs 93.45 lakh) from a passenger travelling from Jamnagar to Dubai via Mumbai. PIC/MUMBAI CUSTOMS

Mumbai Customs recovered USD 100,000 (around Rs 93.45 lakh) from a passenger travelling from Jamnagar to Dubai via Mumbai. PIC/MUMBAI CUSTOMS

Customs Zone-III officers filed three cases during duty operations conducted on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, recovering suspected narcotics and foreign currency collectively worth crores of rupees.

According to a press note issued by the airport commissionerate, Mumbai Customs Zone-3, one case was registered based on Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) profiling in which USD 100,000, equivalent to Rs 93.45 lakh, was recovered from a passenger who had arrived in Mumbai from Jamnagar and was scheduled to depart for Dubai on an Indigo Airlines flight.

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