LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling extended the judicial remand of an accused, Zahid Rasheed, arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on the charge 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 trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands into the country. The customs intelligence, on a tip-off, intercepted a truck in the suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with the international branded powder milk.
The customs intelligence raided a warehouse and found 9,349 bags of powder milk. The weight of the recovered milk is 232,000 kilograms. The value of the milk is Rs70millions. The 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.
After physical remand, he was remanded to jail and now he is on judicial trial.
The customs authorities have registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
