ISLAMABAD: Special Customs and Taxation Court has sent four accused involved in smuggling of cell phones worth Rs 4 million on judicial remand for further interrogation.
As per details, Model Customs Collectorate Preventive Islamabad had arrested four accused those were attempting to smuggled cell phones and DVDs by foiling it.
Collector Zeba Hai received information regarding the possible smuggling of the said items on which she directed the Deputy Collector (DC) Yawar Nawaz to fail the smuggling bid. Following the directions, DC Yawar formed a team under the supervision of Superintendent Zargam Dil.
Customs Preventive team established a picket near an entrance of Islamabad and intercepted two vehicles. During checking, custom officials recovered 3,700 sets of China origin cell phones and number of DVDs.
Officials asked the person traveling in the vehicles to produce the documents showing the legal import of the recovered items but they remained fail to do so.
Therefore, customs officials arrested and registered cases against them following the charges of smuggling.
Sources informed that one of the accused namely Khurram is a Lahore based businessman who runs electronics business in different markets of Lahore, adding that other three suspects are his employees. They added that value of seized items is approximately Rs 4 million in local market.
