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`Fraudulent' money transfer by officials

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Thirty places raided by Central Bureau of Investigation

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation conducted searches at 30 places in Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur and Nawanshahr in Punjab over the weekend in connection with alleged fraudulent transfer of money by Customs officials in the accounts of about 20 exporters.

Rs. 8 crore was reportedly transferred in the form of supplementary duty drawback claims, a CBI spokesperson said. The CBI has registered a criminal case under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and Prevention of Corruption Act against two Customs officials and others for defrauding the Government. It has also been alleged that in 2004-06, supplementary duty drawback claims of some exporters were accepted and payments made by some Customs officials. The claims were processed without any actual physical receipt of such claims by manipulating and creating false records in the database in the computers of the Customs office.

The duty drawback claims were credited to bank accounts of the exporters electronically.

The procedure followed by the accused was as follows: no documents for supplementary claims submitted to the Customs, no token number generated, no file opened and subsequently no scrutiny and examination of the documents undertaken by the Customs officials.

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