LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling approved a three-day physical remand of a suspect, Sarfraz Ahmad, who is involved in a currency smuggling case.
According to details, Sarfraz Ahmad was arrested by Customs authorities after investigation from another accused Qaisar Iqbal. Qaisar Iqbal during the interrogations revealed that the money he was trying to smuggle belonged to Sarfraz Ahmad.
Qaiser Iqbal was arrested from airport while making an attempt to smuggle a huge amount of foreign currency from Pakistan to a Gulf state. He was trying to fly through a Sharjah bound flight of Airblue PA-410.
During the checking of his luggage, the customs officials found US dollars, Euros and UK pounds that were equal to Rs 22 million in Pakistani currency.
A case under section 156, (1), (68), (70), 157, 178 of Pakistan Customs Act 1969 was registered against him in investigation and prosection branch of Customs House Lahore.
Customs I&P arrested Sarfraz Ahmad and produced him before the court and obtained physical remand of three days for further investigations.
