'Kuruvi' - the well-known Tamil word which brands the transporter who allegedly smuggle the goods and golds illegally into the country and the state of Tamil Nadu has been revealing the presence of thousands of such smugglers for every day after they have been caught in international airports of the state. 

The Customs and Immigration departments of every airport have reportedly been encountering the series of smugglings that have now become 24 hours unstoppable activity which continues despite the number of arrests. While the entire customs departments had installed severe searches and eagle eye drones in the airport to locate such Kuruvis and seize the smuggled goods,  the reports had shockingly exposed that there are some of the officials in the department who had been connivance behind the immoral and illegal acts.

Trichy International Airport has been acting as the gateway for such smugglers to supply the goods illegally through the legal passage. Trichy airport is one of the international airports in the state which has direct flights to Singapore, Malaysia, Dubai and to Sri Lanka and the airport's grounds handles around thousand passengers every day and along with that, the airport tops in being the location of brining illegal goods into India from these countries. By suspecting the alleged involvement of authorities from the customs department on letting the goods pass free, about forty officials from the Central Revenue Intelligence Bureau from Trichy, Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, and Tuticorin had stationed in Trichy airport for investigations.

Upon their arrival at Trichy airport, the intelligence authorities had located about 150 doubtful people who disembarked from four planes that transported them from Malaysia and Sharjah. The authorities had undergone severe interrogations with these suspicious people following which they seized about 33 kilograms of gold worth of Rs 13 crore and the mobile phones worth Rs 3 crore. Of these 150 people, about 25 people had confessed that they acted as 'Kuruvi' in couriering the smuggled goods. The authorities had identified that out of 25 people, 12 belong to Trichy and after surrounding them, the Central authorities had located and detained about 15 traders who were reportedly waiting outside the airport to bank the golds.

As cited by the Central Bureau on the alleged involvement of the customs authorities behind the racket, the bureau had uncovered the involvement of a senior official of Customs along with two officials and the sources had revealed that these officers were responsible to report about the seized goods and they were nested under the investigations after their transactions with the gold traders had come to the spotlight. Our sources had stated that four of the detained smugglers had confessed that they had worked for the party man of the state's ruling party.

In 2018, the Central Bureau of Investigation which raided the Trichy airport had arrested about 19 authorities including the commissioner and the superintendents of the customs. From January to July last year, Trichy airport accounted for seizing the smuggled golds of about 47 kilograms worth of Rs 14.10 crore and during the same period, the undisclosed cash of Rs 8 lakh had also recovered from the 'Kuruvis'. The alleged customs authorities had seized the illegal goods for the sake of reporting and to get rid off from the drones of CBI and after the CBI had exposed the involvement and seizing about 47 kilograms, the CBI authorities had left with least clues on predicting the exact amount of illegal golds that were cleared by the alleged custom authorities.