LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand of the accused held in a mobiles’ smuggling case.
Accused Abdul Waheed was arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from The Mall of Lahore. The customs intelligence and investigation team had presented the accused before the customs court for getting his physical remand to investigate more on the issue.
Accused Waheed was supplying mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road which is the largest mobile phones market of Punjab.
The customs intelligence team had intercepted the accused and recovered a big quantity of mobile phones of different brands. Sources said the customs intelligence has recovered 324 mobile phones. The worth of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs6million in the local market. By smuggling these cell phones, the accused has caused the national kitty a big loss in the wake of duties and taxes.
The investigation team had presented him before the court of special judge of the customs taxation and anti-smuggling Tahir Sabir and asked for his physical remand for three days. The customs court handed over him to the customs investigation team for further 14 days. After the completion of physical remand, he was sent to jail for judicial trial.
During a search of the luggage of the goods in his car, the customs intelligence found mobile phones that were being smuggled.
The customs has registered a case against the accused and launched an investigation as well after confiscating the cell phones.
The customs authorities have registered a case against him under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
