LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive recovered 370 mobile phones of American brands from a rickshaw on Thursday afternoon.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Customs Collectorate of Preventive Faiz Ahmad received credible information about some smuggling attempts. He immediately constituted a team comprising Superintendent Nasir Minhas, Deputy Superintendent Agha Qadeer, Inspector Gulzar Bhatti, Inspector Farooq Aslam and Inspector Mujahid Khan.
The team established many check points on main entry and exit points of the city and started checking vehicle. The Customs Preventive team intercepted a rickshaw. During checking customs team recovered 370 American BLU brand mobile phones. The passenger of the rickshaw who was later identified as Umeed Ghalib claimed the ownership of the mobile phones. He told customs team that he brought all these mobile phones from Peshawar and going to supply to main market of Lahore.
Customs Preventive team asked the him to provide any relevant documents regarding purchase and transportation of these mobile phones but he remained failed to provide any relevant legal documents. After his failure Customs Preventive team seized the entire mobile phones and after registering a case of smuggling against the accused person according to customs act and started investigations.
It is necessary to mention here that Customs Preventive Collector Faiz Ahmad directed all field staff to enhance checking on main routes of the city to curb smuggling attempts. Customs Preventive already adopted comprehensive policy to foil smuggling bids in the region.
