Greed landed the coin hoarders in the lock-up

Times of India
Ankur Jain, TNN Jan 2, 2012, 03.31AM IST

AHMEDABAD: Was it not for a routine inspection by a commercial tax inspector at Dahod check post, the truckload of coins would have passed off as the declared consignment of nuts and bolts. But the seizure in no way led to the criminals as the company as well as the address they had given to the innocent trucker were fake.
What led to the arrest of city-based money-changer Ravi Gupta and Jeetendra Rajai, his counterpart in Raipur, Chhatisgarh, was their own greed. "Some days after the seizure, Gupta and Rajai came to the commercial tax department to get their consignment and truck released. The duo cooked up a story and even tried to bribe their way through. We informed RBI about it and they filed a police complaint and got them arrested," said an official of the commercial tax department.