Hyderabad: CBI and the Directorate of Income Intelligence (DRI) have dug racquets where customs officials and red sanders smugglers do not export wood with air cargo.
This was revealed after the seizure of several red Sanders log posts, weighing 3,293kg, from Rayalaseema at Andhra Pradesh.
Seizures are made when the log is being exported illegally by registering it as a pipe.
Three customs officials and the other two were crowned in the CBI FIR.
Officials accused of being a customs supervisor – C Venkatesh and Anantha Padmanabha Rao -and Ravinder Pawar Inspector from the Bangalore Air Cargo Complex.
The other two were identified as agents of Customs House – T Satish Kumar – whose licensed under suspension, and illegal exporter, Najeeb.
Customs officials have been ordered by anti-corruption branches of Bengaluru CBI for criminal conspiracies and also under the prevention of corruption laws.
CBI FIR against three customs officials in the case of ‘Red Sanders’
