<span style="color: #222222;">Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, DRI is celebrating its 62nd Founding Day today.<br />'' <br />'' The two-day event was inaugurated by Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs Anurag Thakur.<br />'' <br />'' Speaking on the occasion, Mr Thakur said, DRI is extremely significant to the nation and has consistently upheld the benchmark of professionalism.<br />'' <br />'' He said, DRI has played a tremendous role in safeguarding country's economic frontier and has made large seizures of drugs, gold, foreign currency and fake Indian currency.<br />'' <br />'' Mr Thakur said, DRI has a huge role in preventing illicit international trade of wildlife items and internationally sensitive goods.<br />'' <br />'' Our correspondent reports that for more than six decades, DRI with its presence across India and abroad has been carrying out its mandate of countering organised crime groups engaged in smuggling of contraband goods such as arms, ammunitions and explosives, narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, gold and diamonds, counterfeit currency notes, wildlife items, hazardous and environmentally sensitive materials and antiques.<br />''<br />''DRI also has expertise in unearthing commercial frauds, plugging leakage of Government's tax revenue and countering trade-based money laundering and black money.</span>