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.