Even as Covid protocols restrict international and domestic transport, the cross border crime syndicates continue to make big money by smuggling truckloads of `sin goods` into India through land and sea routes. Two major transit hubs, Tamu (Myanmar) and Dubai have emerged as bases of top smuggling syndicates, involved in pushing large consignments of branded cigarettes, seen as the most lucrative commodity having profit margins much higher than gold.
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Trailing illicit factories in Malaysia and Indonesia, Indian agencies have recently busted a Myanmar based crime syndicate that had been pushing truckloads of foreign brand cigarettes, primarily Marlboro, 555, and Esse Lights worth several crores. Confirming to IANS, the Commissioner of Customs (Preventive), V.P. Shukla said that his team seized two truckloads of branded cigarettes in the past two months in Uttar Pradesh, bearing Nagaland number plates. It`s a very sensitive inves