The Air Intelligence Wing of the Customs Department would be “closely monitoring” the civil aviation exhibition and conference at Hyderabad.
“The show would attract many potential private jets buyers. We will monitor all developments at the air show as part of our intelligence gathering to prevent import of aircraft by evasion of duty through misrepresentation of facts,” a top finance ministry official, who didn’t wish to be identified, said. The move comes after a number of aircraft imported by various top corporate houses were seized during the investigation into approximately Rs 8,000 crore “aircraft import scam”.
According to the plan, a team has been formed to gather all relevant information about orders placed by corporates, excluding those by scheduled operators.
