KARACHI: The authorities of Model Customs Collectorate-MCC Preventive, while following the directives of Chief Collector-Enforcement-South Muhammad Nazim Saleem, have beefed up security and surveillance at the arrival lounge of Jinnah International Airport after the seizure of 2.9 kilogram assorted gold jewelry from a couple, few days ago.
Sources informed Customs Today that the Chief Collector-Enforcement-South Muhammad Nazim Saleem has asked the Collector-MCC-Preventive Syed Muhammad Tariq Huda to continue the best ongoing efforts in order to detect smuggling cases at Karachi Airport.
“The Chief Collector-Customs also advised the authorities concerned of MCC-Preventive to make the Customs surveillance more effective at the arrival lounge and as well as the departure lounge of the JIAP so that the cases of smuggling of contraband items and money laundering could be detected further”, sources added.
It is pertinent to mention here that the authorities concerned of MCC-Preventive in the current month was foiled a bid of smuggling gold and arrested a couple Zeeshan Aslam and his wife Ayesha Aslam at arrival lounge of JIAP and recovered 2.9 kilograms of gold from their possession.
The authorities also registered a case in this regard in the Court of Special Judge (Customs & Taxation), Karachi for violation of section 2(s), 16 and 178 of the Customs Act, 1969.
The sources further revealed that the Customs authorities are also working for increasing the risk-profile at departure and arrival of JIAP in order to put a proper check on money laundering and other such types of crimes.
