DRI Bulletin Apr-Sept 2024

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Foreword

Mohan Kumar Singh, I.R.S

Pr. Director General

Directorate of

Revenue Intelligence

The inaugural issue of the “Smuggling in India Report” was

released when DRI celebrated the Diamond Jubilee of its

foundation on December 4, 2017. Since then, this Report has been

the bellwether for the Customs community, consistently capturing

the trends in smuggling across India’s land, sea and air borders

while simultaneously highlighting the ingenious methods adopted

by smugglers and fraudsters.

While the annual Report has been an invaluable resource for

Customs authorities as well as stakeholders including the

intelligence community, law enforcement agencies, policy makers

and researchers, the need to capture the fast-changing landscape

of illicit trade on a more frequent basis has been felt for some time

now. This need is accentuated given that the annual Report,

covering the previous financial year, is released typically in

December, which is a full 8 months after the conclusion of the

reporting period. This time lag is perhaps anachronistic in an age

where information flows rapidly and smugglers innovate and

evolve their methods even more rapidly.

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