DRI busts an iPhone 13 smuggling racket, seizes over 3,600 phones

The Mumbai unit of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) busted an Apple iphone smuggling racket and has seized over 3,600 handsets of the recently launched iphone 13 series. The items were imported as ‘memory chips’ to evade customs duty, the federal agency said.

The total value of the seized goods is around Rs. 42.86 crore, while the declared value of the goods was only Rs. 80 lakhs.

DRI is India’s apex anti-smuggling intelligence, investigations and operations agency.