FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) has confiscated (48-Nos), of tyres and rims worth Rs500,000 involving duty and taxes amounting Rs75000.
As per the details, ASO deputy Collector Muhammad Rizwan received information that non-duty paid foreign origin tyres and rims would be smuggled into Faisalabad through illegal way without payment of customs-duty and taxes.
He immediately constituted a team comprising Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspectors Khalid Ashraf Noor, Ali Zahid, Mehmood Ahmed Dogar, Sepoys, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Khalid, Afzal Hussain, Muhammad Ashraf and Liaqat Ali to conduct the raid.
The ASO team raided near Motor way kamal pur interchange, Faisalabad and impounded bus bearing registration No FSA-4055 and recovered foreign origin tyres and rims that were brought into Faisalabad from Lahore.
The team asked the owners Ali Raza, Muhammad sultan, Nasir and Sharafat Ali to produce the documents regarding legal import of the tyres and rims but he could not do the same.
The ASO team seized the recovered items under Section 2(s), read with SRO 566(1)/2005 Section 16, 18 of the Customs Act, 1969 and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
