ISLAMABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) impounded goods and a vehicle valued Rs4.63million during a checking on G.T Road Rawalpindi on 28th of January 2017.
According to details told by Deputy Collector Preventive Ansar Anees, the ASO set up a picket on G.T Road after getting a tip-off. A vehicle, coming from Rawalpindi to Peshawar, was intercepted by the anti-smuggling staff after which miscellaneous goods along with an offending vehicle were impounded.
Deputy collector asked the possessors of Hino bus with registration No. KSE-1655 to prove the status of the imported goods but they failed. So she confiscated the goods and impounded the vehicle under Section 168 and 157 of the Customs Act-1969 after serving a notice on them under Section 171 ibid.
The impounded bus valued Rs1.5million. The ASO staff also seized foreign origin digital satellite receivers numbered 990 pieces, Milano cigarettes numbered 1050 cartons and Chinese printing ink (Skyline) weighed 600 kilogram. The total value of above said smuggled goods is Rs3.13million.
The staffers who seized goods include Deputy Superintendent Arif Zaman Dar and Farrukh Azeem Sati.
