GWADAR: The Customs Collectorate Gwadar has impounded Iranian diesel worth more than Rs1.5million on Wednesday.
Sources told Customs Today, operation against smuggled items and non-duty-paid luxury vehicles is going on in full swing and several raids have been conducted during the previous month of November and operation against smuggled items is still going on during the current month of December.
Sources told CT on Wednesday that deputy collector Gwadar constituted a team of Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) under the supervision of Customs Preventive Inspector Mushahid Ali and others. The team, during a search operation on Highway Road, intercepted a container bearing registration No: KGN-482 which was going out of the city.
During the raids, the customs team impounded 22,000 liter of Iranian diesel worth Rs1.5million. The customs team arrested two smugglers involved in smuggling and registered an FIR against them and started investigations.
