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Detailed discussions between the Ministry of Commerce officials with the case officers of DRI can lead to fine tuning of specific measures of control to reduce system vulnerabilities and minimize revenue leakages through manipulations.
DRI has multifarious responsibilities. It handles outright smuggling cases pertaining to gold, narcotics, endangered flora & fauna, antiques etc as also books commercial fraud cases pertaining to normal imports and exports based on under valuation, concealment, misdeclaration, misclassification, misuse of notifications, country of origins and end use certificates etc. As discussed, detecting the mis-use of export promotion schemes and maintaining their integrity is only one of its many mandated functions.
The fact that 600 odd executive officers of DRI have been able to detect over Rs. 8157 crores of duty evasion pertaining to export promotion schemes, not only reflects on DRIs effectiveness as an organization but also points to deep insights which DRI officers possess in understanding the exploitable vulnerabilities of such schemes vis-a-vis the reaction of criminal minds to the same. In the backdrop of the constantly evolving tax evasion modus and scenarios, DRI stands ever ready to share its insights and capabilities with the Ministry of Commerce/DGFT, both at the policy and the field level, in order to assist them in the formulation and implementation of the export promotion schemes under the FTPs across the country.
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