LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand of an accused held in a currency smuggling case.
Accused Faisal Hussain was arrested by the customs preventive authorities at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore. The customs authorities, during a search of his luggage, found a huge quantity of currency. Accused Faisal Hussain was trying to smuggle currency of Rs2million into Europe. The authorities found Dollars, Euros, Pounds and Pakistani currency in his luggage.
The customs investigation had presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more on the issue which was granted by the court.
After the completion of the remand, the customs team presented him again before the court which sent him to jail.
The customs investigation team had presented him before the court of special judge Tahir Sabir and asked for his judicial remand for 14 days.
The customs authorities registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
