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Malayalam histrion Amit Chakkalakkal, whose residence was raided by the Customs section a time agone successful transportation with the alleged smuggling of high-end luxury vehicles, connected Wednesday (September 24, 2025) said lone 1 of his cars was seized and the remainder being attributed to him belonged to others.
The histrion told reporters successful Kochi that his implicit 20-year-old second-hand Land Cruiser, which helium had been utilizing for the past 5 years, was the lone conveyance that belonged to him.
"The remainder of the high-end cars seized from my residence and my store belonged to others who had brought them to maine for renovation oregon repairs. So, of the full 7 vehicles seized from my premises, lone 1 was mine," helium clarified.
He besides said the Customs section successful November 2024 had issued summons to him with respect to these vehicles and helium had provided each the related documents backmost past and thereafter, nary different steps were taken by the agency.
"Then, yesterday (Tuesday) they came for the hunt and I again provided them with each the documents. Now, they person to verify the genuineness of the documents," helium said.
Officials of the Customs Preventive section had connected Tuesday carried retired raids astatine aggregate locations crossed Kerala to way down, place and prehend high-end luxury vehicles brought illegally to India from Bhutan with forged documents that person seals of the Army and the US Embassy.
Searches were carried retired astatine astir 30 locations, including astatine the residences of movie stars Prithviraj Sukumaran, Dulquer Salmaan and Mr. Chakkalakkal, crossed the State and 36 high-end luxury cars were seized.
Operation Numkhor
The raids were codenamed ‘Operation Numkhor’ arsenic ‘Numkhor’ successful the Bhutanese connection means ‘vehicle’.
The section had said that galore of the vehicles, brought illegally to India and sold successful the country, were besides utilized to smuggle golden and drugs and cases person been lodged successful transportation with that.
It besides said that their archetypal probe revealed assorted different illegalities specified arsenic income taxation and GST evasion arsenic good arsenic wealth laundering successful transportation with the smuggled vehicles.
Besides that, it was besides looking into whether the funds from specified illegalities were utilized for violent activities, the section had said.
