ED searches nine locations in Mizoram’s Champhai in illegal Burmese supari smuggling case

Key points

• The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday (June 4, 2026) conducted searches at nine locations in the border town of Champhai along the Mizoram-Myanmar frontier in connection with the smuggling of illegal Burmese supari (dry Areca nuts) into India.
• “This major crackdown is targeting a highly organised cross-border network heavily involved in the large-scale smuggling of illegal Burmese supari into India.
• The ongoing raids focus primarily on the residences and business premises of prominent local facilitators of the smuggling network,” said an agency official.
• According to the agency, its investigation has revealed that the individuals under the ED scanner illegally brought in Myanmar-origin consignments via the Tiau River.
• They allegedly stored them in local godowns and used fraudulent e-way bills and forged documents to pass them off as legitimate local purchases.