FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has confiscated 2240 kilogram of foreign origin (F/O) cardamom (Ailaichi) worth Rs01.3million involving duty and taxes of Rs188040 besides impounding a Hino truck valued Rs188040.
The ASO has seized items under Section 16,18 of the Customs Act-1969 and Section 3 of Sales Tax Act-1990 read with Section 3(1)3 of Import and Export Control Act-1950 punishable under Section 156 (1) 90 of the Customs Act.
Following the instructions of Faisalabad Customs Collector Muhammad Sadiq, an ASO team, comprising Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspector Tanveer-ul-Haq, Khalid Ashraf Noor, Ali Zahid, intercepted Hino truck No: LRT-1690 near Canal Road, Kashmir Pull, Faisalabad, and recovered Zeera Brand KLP Patel (1200-kg) and a large quantity of Indian brand cardamom (1040-kg).
The team asked owner Nusrat Iqbal son of Ghulam Muhammad and Iftikhar Ahmad son of Muhammad Sadiq to produce the documents of legal import of the items but he failed to prove anything. So the customs officials confiscated the goods under customs bylaws.
