KARACHI: The Customs Hyderabad Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) thwarted an attempt to smuggle a huge quantity of LEDs monitors, air conditioners and arrested five persons.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Hyderabad Agha Shahid Majeed received information that some people are going to smuggle a huge quantity of LEDs monitors outside the Hyderabad city. He immediately called Deputy Collector Umer Shafiq to use all means to foil this bid.
Deputy Collector immediately formed a team comprising Inspector Mujahid Ali, Inspector Raheel Ali Khan, Inspector Gul Zaman Khan, Inspector Chaudhary Amjad and others. The ASO team established different pickets at main entry and exit points of the city and started checking of vehicles.
The ASO team intercepted a truck which was heading towards Karachi and during checking recovered 100 LEDs monitors of Acer brands and 30 split air conditioners. The market value of seized LEDs monitors and split air conditioners is Rs3 million.
The ASO team asked the driver of the vehicle to produce legal documents regarding possession and transportation of these goods, but the owner of the goods failed to show any relevant documents. After his failure ASO team arrested all the five persons who were boarded on the truck. The ASO team after registering a case of smuggling against accused persons started interrogations.
