FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Faisalabad has seized ,3500 yards of foreign origin silk cloth worth Rs 500,000 involving duty/taxes amounting to Rs 83,859.
Sources told Customs Today that ASO team, acting upon credible information received through Collector Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Faisalabad, Dr Zulafqar Ali Chaudhary, conducted the raid near Rail bazaar Faisalabad.
The ASO team comprising Superintendent Zahid Raza Bukhari, Inspector Muhammad Munir Ahmad, Zulfiqar Ali, Rana Abdul Jabbar and others intercepted a rickshaw bearing Registration No. FDS-4317 and recovered silk cloth.
Following the charges of smuggling, the ASO team seized the cloth under Import and Export trade (control), Act 1950, punishable under Section 156(1), 89 of Customs Act 1969.
