LAHORE: Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) on Tuesday impounded illegally imported auto parts, cloth, chemicals worth millions of rupees from Babu Sabu Interchange.
Official sources told Customs Today that on the information of Collector of Customs Preventive Faiz Ahmad , the ASO Lahore team number-3 intercepted a bus bearing registration no: LES/ 16-7987 of Niazi Bus Service on Daweoo Bus Stand and recovered 780 units of HD digital receiver, 200 units of auto-parts, 1,500 yards of foreign made cloth and 80 kilogram of chemicals.
The ASO team that undertook the operation consisted of ASO Superintendent Nasir Minhas, Deputy Superintendent Agha Qadeer, inspectors Mansoor Elahi, Muhammad Aslam Chaudhray and Azam Wattoo.
It was said that the smuggled goods were estimated at Rs 3 million and the operation was led by Deputy Collector of Customs Moazzam Raza.
Sources told The Business that Lahore collector of customs Faiz Ahmad has instructed all the ASO team to adopt zero tolerance against the smuggling activities in the city.
The sources said that the smuggled goods were hidden under the seats and in the special made areas of the bus by three accused Bilal Noor Muhammad and Jamil residents of Peshawar.
It was said that the accused were not arrested as the goods and articles do not come under the head of 2(s) items under the Customs Act.
Earlier, the ASO team confiscated four trucks of smuggled tomatoes during the acute shortage of the vegetables a few days before and the tomatoes were auctioned for Rs3.8 million.
