LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has ordered the customs investigation team to file complete challan of a case against Zahid Rasheed on the next date of hearing.
Earlier, the court had approved a 14-day judicial remand of the suspected who was arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on the charges of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
Sources told Customs Today that Zahid Rasheed was booked by the customs team while he was trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands. The Customs intelligence on secret information intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore and found it loaded with international branded powder milk. After that, the customs intelligence, on base of investigation raided a warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. The customs teams found 9,349 bags of powder milk of different brands. Weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilogram worth Rs 70 million. 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 routes, especially from Afghanistan.
Earlier customs investigation and prosecution team presented him before the judge of the customs court and asked him for his physical remand that the court had approved for two days for investigation to dig out the more accused behind the smuggling act and than he was sent to jail.
