Mumbai: Man held for evading Rs 7 crore customs duty

Mumbai | Sunday | 24th February, 2019

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Purohit has imported over 14,000 metric tonnes of CRGO sheets thereby evading customs duty of around Rs 7.17 crore," said the official. The businessman had been procuring the said secondary CRGO from Germany and Sweden based suppliers, agency sources claimed. Case FileBusinessman arrested for smuggling secondary cold-rolled grain-oriented (CRGO) steel, import of which is banned by the Government of India in 2014 and evading Customs duty of Rs 7.17 cr. He had been in business of CRGO steel since 2011. "In 2014 Purohit came in contact with few Germany and Sweden based firm that deal in trading of secondary CRGO..