New Delhi: Minister of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday called on a smuggling agency, news Directorate (DRI) to use all modern technologies and also work with all other agencies in the country and abroad to detect deep systemic threats to the economy and catch large fish. trades.
The Minister’s proposal comes in connection with the recent outburst to the tension of the border with Pakistan.
The minister told officials that to be effective, coercive bodies needed to make efforts in three directions.
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First, officials should not think of recovering and facilitating the opposite end spectrum. Also, the robust news framework that detects fraud is also necessary, not only to capture providers, but also to create straight conditions for honorary trade, the minister said.
“The rules must be applied fairly and consistently and fraud must be quickly caught in order for legitimate businesses to be able to deepen our trading system for confidence in our trading system.”
The Minister said that officials should investigate cases holistic, maintain a large image in focus, not only for the persecution of isolated offenses. They should use all available information and data on the behavior of individuals and entities’ behavior and combine dots to reveal deeper system threats.
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Sithaman said that the aim must be to dismantle the entire network and syndicates involved in smuggling and illegal trade, not only to capture fragments. The Minister of Finance said that this report often repeated the agencies: “It is not good if you catch a small frying. The bigger ones are those who are there, and many of our actions will not affect.”
She called on officials to monitor these entities. “Watch them and act on them. It’s not easy, I know, but we should show some tangible results.”
Sitharaman also told officials to make sure that cases were documented to their logical conclusion, ie finding masters for smuggling and condemning.
Thirdly, the Minister said that the coercive measures must be rooted in the data and in Dharma.
The event must not only be tireless, but also, Sitharaman said.
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The Minister explained that the unveiling and stopping of fraud and smuggling helps move from compliance with fear to the value-and compliance with confidence.
“I call on every officer to keep his mind agile, anchored values and haughty visions,” the Minister told officials.
(tagstotranslate) smuggling and Illlicit Trade
