According to officials, Tanti is one of the accused in the biggest gold smuggling racket in Gujarat.
The Gujarat Police brought Bhargav Tanti, an accused in Rs 1400-crore gold smuggling case, to Ahmedabad on Wednesday, two weeks after he was held in Amreli after Ahmedabad Customs alerted the police.
Tanti had turned Covid-19 positive, a day after he was held in Amreli on December 3 and for two weeks he was kept in quarantine at the Amreli Civil Hospital.
According to officials, Tanti is one of the accused in the biggest gold smuggling racket in Gujarat that was discovered by Ahmedabad Customs officials in July 2019 in which almost 4 tonnes of gold were smuggled into Gujarat thr- ough Sardar Va- l labhbhai Patel International air port in Ahme-dabad in the past six years. The smuggling racket was unearthed by customs officials when an airline employee Jignesh Savaliya was arrested in July 2019 helping a carrier named Lokesh smuggle 24.5 kg of 24 carat gold bars and biscu