Smuggling by Customs Officers - New Modus Operandi
HUMAN greed knows no bounds. The CBI reports that it has booked a case against Joint Commissioner; an Assistant Commissioner; four Supdts and an Inspector of Central Excise of Thiruvananthapuram Airport.
It was alleged that the customs officials and clearing agents of Unaccompanied Baggage Section of Air Cargo Complex, Thiruvananthapuram Airport have been engaged in the unauthorized import of various items for sale/distribution in different parts of Kerala and other States in the guise of unaccompanied baggage using the names & passports of different persons and thus cheating the Govt. of India and obtaining illegal gratification for themselves. CBI intercepted 4 mini trucks loaded at Air Cargo Complex, Thiruvananthapuram Airport with goods cleared by Customs Officials. What do you do when the fence starts eating the crop?
It is learnt that the Joint Commissioner is a 1999 batch lady IRS officer!
DDT does not like to sermonize on corruption; we would only request the officers to consider the consequences – going to jail; social humiliation; losing job and the torture of going through the case for decades. With reasonably good salaries now, is it all worth the risk?