ISLAMABAD: Peshawar police have registered a case against a Senator’s son, who stopped a Federal Board of Revenue’s team at gunpoint.
The FBR team was returning after confiscating record from a factory located at Peshawar’s Hayatabad area facing allegations of tax evasion when the senator’s son along with his accomplices stopped them at gunpoint.
The FBR’s Director Intelligence & Investigation (I&I) Inland Revenues (IR) Peshawar has informed FBR’s Headquarters Islamabad about the incident, saying, a team was formed to raid the manufacturing premises/head offices of M/s Vincraft (Pvt) Limited, M/s MKB Industries (Pvt) Limited and M/s MKB Pharmaceuticals (Pvt) Limited to confiscate tax record under section 175 of the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
Ghazanfar Bilour along with some other armed men stopped the officers and held them for one and a half hours, when they were uploading the documents in FBR vehicle. A verbal brawl was also erupted there. The Hayatabad police under the charge of SHO Sardar Hussain arrived there and diffused the tense situation and the team was able to bring the record and computers along.
Later, the deputy director filed a complaint before the SHO, which was forwarded by the director for lodging of FIR.
