QUETTA: The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations Quetta seized smuggling items and plastic Dana include non duty paid windows phones, rolls of German made newspaper paper, chesses of laxury vehicles and other items worth Rs 6.78.million on Saturday.
The sources told Customs Today that Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta Irfan Javed received a tip-off that some smugglers are trying to smuggle luxury vehicles chesses, plastic Dana, mobile phones and different things from Quetta into different cities.
He immediately constituted a raiding team. The team enhanced the vigilance in the Quetta near Bara market area and started a search operation of vehicles. During the search, the team intercepted a container truck with registration No: BS-3244 which was heading out of city.
During the checking, the customs team recovered 155 packets of plastic Dana (50 kg each in packet) 100 non duty paid windows phones, tyres of luxury vehicles, seven chassis of luxury vehicles, seven rolls of German made newspaper papers and more things worth Rs 6.78 million. Two persons were arrested and an FIR was registered against smugglers who were later identified as driver Mustansar Ali and other unknown person.
Source said Director Customs Intelligence and Investigations Quetta Irfan Javed is holding a daily meeting with the team-members and giving instructions to arrest the smuggling. Source said Irfan Javed appreciated the anti-smuggling team on the said performance. It was a 2nd raid in the month of October.
Sources told reporter that in the month of September Customs Intelligence and Investigations Quetta seized different items worth Rs.13.76 million.
