Currency seized

AHMEDABAD, JULY 11. The officials of the Enforcement Directorate seized unclaimed currency notes worth Rs.1.97 crores as well as gold ornaments worth lakhs, concealed in parcels sent from New Delhi through couriers, during a raid at the Ahmedabad railway station on Tuesday.

The Director of Enforcement Directorate, Mr. H. S. Halder, today said 69 parcels, containing currency notes of denomination of Rs.100 and Rs.50, were found in the bundles which came from New Delhi in the brake van of Ashram Express.

According to preliminary investigations, the unaccounted hawala money has been sent by the New Delhi-based courier agency to some 30 different parties from Ahmedabad, which is in violation of provision of Foreign Exchange Management Act, he said.

- PTI

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