LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling has approved 14 days judicial remand of the accused who was arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on charges of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
According to sources of Customs Today accused Zahid Rasheed was booked by the Customs Intelligence while he was trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands. Customs Intelligence on secret information intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk.
After that customs intelligence on base of investigations raided at a Warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. Customs teams found 9349 bags of powder milk of different brands. Weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilograms.
Source told that worth of the recovered powder milk is Rs 70 millions. Accused Zahid Rasheed has made a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties.
Sources said that smuggled milk is made of America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. All of the milk was smuggled from these countries by different routs especially from Afghanistan.
A team of customs investigation presented the accused Zahid Rasheed before the court of special judge in the Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling and asked for remand of five days to complete investigations from the accused.
After hearing the arguments from both sides the customs court handed over the accused to investigation team for two days. He was presented before the court for further legal proceedings, where the court has sent him to jail on judicial remand for extension of 14 days. Customs authorities registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act 1969.
