LAHORE: Directorate of Customs Investigation and Prosecution (I&P) registered 40 FIRs worth Rs 394 million during Fiscal Year 2015-16.
Sources told Customs Today that I&P lodged 25 FIRs involving duty and taxes worth Rs 304 million during 2015 while 15 FIRs worth Rs 90 were registered during year 2016 against accessed involved in smuggling contraband goods and articles and drugs.
According to detail the Customs Investigation and Prosecution registered FIRs against accused who were attempted to smuggle heroin, used mobiles, liqour, electronic goods, petroleum products, polytehene granules, gold jewelry, tyres, alloy rims, fake CDs, fake documents, foreign currency gold bullions and other miscellaneous goods.
The official sources said that most of these FIRs were lodged against the passenger who tried to smuggle gold, currency, mobile and other valuable from and in the country.
The sources said that most of the accused booked through these FIRs were arrested from airport and inside the various localities of Lahore.
However, the accused booked in heroine and other drugs at the GPO were not arrested due to the reason that most of them registered the drugs under the fake names and addresses.
It was said that the FIRs are lodged in order to discourage smuggling of contraband goods and articles in the country to safeguard the legal business in country.
The I&P registered the cases against the unknown persons and others including Muhammad Zaman Arif, Naeem Siddique, Akbar Ali, Akbar Said, Muhammad Ijaz, Muhammad Arshad, Alfred Bendict, Ansa Sakhawat Ali, Rehan Ahmad Zaidi, Shahbaz Ali, Rana M Rafique & Sarah Bano, Nadeem Mirza, Ali Arslan Jaffery, Muhammad Alsam, Shahbaz Noor, Muhammad Ali, Abdul Basit, Muhammad Ali, Sarfraz Ahmad Cheema, Shahbaz Ahmad, Muhammad Rizwan and Data Tyre House.
