FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has confiscated 1,370 kilograms foreign origin cloth worth Rs 1,200,000 involving duty and taxes amounting to Rs 3,90,000.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Zulifqar Ali Chaudhary received information that non-duty paid foreign origin art silk cloth would be smuggled into Faisalabad.
He immediately constituted a ASO team comprising Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspectors Masood Saeed Chohan Khalid Ashraf Noor, Safdar Ali, Ali Zahid, sepoys Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Yaseen, Javed Iqbal.
The ASO team intercepted Kohistan bus bearing registration no. FDS-1176 which was coming from Lahore near Motorway Chowk, Sargodha Road, Faisalabad. The team asked the driver Abdul Rasheed son of Noor Din to produce the documents regarding the legal import of the cloth but he could not do the same.
The ASO team has seized smuggled cloth under Customs Act 1969 and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
