Customs catches big smuggler - CBI catches Customs
LAST week the Cochin Airport Customs made a huge seizure of 20 kgs of gold valued at Rs. 5.8 Crores from two burka clad lady passengers who arrived from Dubai. These ladies were perhaps only carriers and Customs wanted the kingpin and they arrested one Fayaz and it seems he was too big a personality with friends in the right and high places which went right up to the peshi of the Kerala Chief Minister. The Kerala news media is full of Fayaz and his friends. And now enters CBI. It seems they have registered cases against three Customs officers including a Deputy Commissioner in this connection.
Addressing the Chief Commissioners' Conference a few years ago, the Finance Minister Chidambaram said, " Under a thana (police station), no crime can take place without the knowledge or connivance of at least one officer."