TKD Customs Appraiser Arrested by CBI in Chennai with 1 crore Cash

Highlights

· It was alleged that various parties had been approaching the middleman to pursue their pending matters with the said appraiser

· Appraiser asked the middleman that a person will collect payment of undue advantage on his behalf

· The middleman had allegedly delivered the payment of Rs 7 lakh as the part of undue advantage to the said private person

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested an appraiser of the Customs Department and three others including a Customs house agent, a middleman, a private person in an alleged bribery case of Rs 7 lakh. The probe agency also recovered cash of around Rs one crore along with incriminating documents during the search operations.

The arrested accused are Saurav Sharma, then Appraiser, ICD Tuglakabad but now posted at Office of Chief Commissioner of Customs, Chennai; Neeraj, Customs House Agent; Ram Krishan Mishra (middleman); and Kishore Kumar (private person).

A case was registered against the key accused and others, alleging that the then Appraiser, was regularly pursuing private parties and few officials for pending payment on import consignments cleared by him during his tenure.

Further, it was alleged that various parties had been approaching Ram Krishan Mishra to pursue their pending matters with the said appraiser.