Gold smuggling scandal: International nexus suspected in Ranya Rao case

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The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence is investigating a potential international gold smuggling network following the arrest of actor Ranya Rao and her friend Tarun Raju in Karnataka.

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00:00So, here is how the investigators are now looking at a scandal unravelling perhaps connecting

00:04countries too.

00:06It's not just about the starlets arrest anymore.

00:08Is there an international layer to this struggling smuggling nexus with regard to even Dubai

00:13and Malaysia possibly will be the under the radar of DRI.

00:17Take a look of are we looking at an international racket here of gold smuggling into India.

00:27The web is unravelling in the Karnataka gold smuggling racket and the news is tightening

00:33on an international smuggling nexus.

00:37Two accused actor Rania Rao and her friend Tarun Raju are in the custody of the directorate

00:42of revenue intelligence.

00:44Tarun is a Karnataka hotelier's grandson and is suspected to be the racket's co-conspirator.

00:51Sources say Rania's phone calls to Tarun helped the DRI nail him down.

00:56Sources say the two go way back as friends but despite strained ties later on they allegedly

01:01kept the smuggling operation going.

01:03Tarun allegedly helped Rania carry out the Dubai operation.

01:08The probe is deepening.

01:09Dubai and Malaysian contacts were found on Rania Rao's phone, triggering speculation

01:14she may have been involved in an international ring.

01:18While the spotlight is back on Rania Rao's DGP stepfather Ramachandra Rao, the Karnataka

01:24government ordered investigations by two different agencies.

01:27First, the CID will be probing the DGP's stepfather's role in the racket.

01:33The next investigation will be against Ramachandra Rao's role in protocol violations at the Bengaluru

01:39airport and finally against the police personnel who aided Rania's smuggling by violating all

01:44protocol.

01:45Whether Rania Rao had any help from political or police influences on the investigation?

01:51Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar dismissed the DGP's charge of a congress minister's

01:55role as political gossip.

02:21International smuggling nexus, the DGP's stepfather's role, politicians and finally

02:47the police.

02:48The stakes are high in this gold racket probe.

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