KARACHI: The Customs Collectorate Appraisement-East and Customs Collectorate Appraisement-West have started investigations against M/s AMI Pakistan (Private) Limited on the charges of filing fake bill of lading and mis-declaration.
The company belongs to the Marine Group of which Capt Haleem Siddiqui is the chairman.
In the mega corruption scam unearthed by Customs Collectorate Appraisement-East section R&D, 31 FIRs have been lodged so far against the white collar crime allegedly committed by M/s AMI Pakistan under the umbrella of free trade agreement with China.
Nisar Pasha, who is the General Manager of Port Links (Private) Limited, another company of Marine Group which has been assigned task to look after the case, informed Customs Today that the organization has issued show cause notices to manager Noman Rauf and assistant manager Import Documentations Saira Jhangir for their alleged involvement in the crime.
M/s AMI Pakistan has also given the required documents of past three years to the customs officials for further investigations and there is no space for the criminals in the organization. The officials involved in the crime will have to answer the show cause notices in seven days served by the company or to be fired from their duties, added Pasha.
AMI Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd is booked for compelling heinous crime by issuing of switch bills of lading with the support of several importers, clearing agents and got cleared different goods by mis-declaring the original information with regard to the shipper’s name, port of loading, country of origin to claim inadmissible FTA benefit and clearing banned products.
On the other hand, Customs Collectorate Appraisement East and Customs Collectorate Appraisement West held several meetings headed by Collector Dr Owais Agha Jawwad for the future action and the investigation against the crime committed by M/s AMI Pakistan (Pvt) causing millions of rupees loss to the country, source informed.
