<h1>Former customs inspector and private individual jailed five years for Rs 32.28 crore duty-free export fraud involving impersonation</h1> A former customs and excise inspector and a private individual were convicted by a CBI court for conspiring to procure duty-free materials through impersonation and clearing them as deemed exports in violation of EXIM policy, causing a reported loss of Rs 32.28 crore in excise and customs duties. The fraud, investigated since 2005 with a chargesheet filed in 2008, involved establishing a shell trading firm to obtain licences and warehousing permission. On September 16, 2025 the court sentenced both accused to five years' imprisonment and imposed combined fines of nearly Rs 5.5 lakh; they were remanded to central prison.