LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has impounded over Rs528 million non-customs paid luxury vehicles and items registering over 126 cases during the four months from January-April 2018.
The ASO set up a record by increasing the recovery by 184% as compared to the operation of past four months. CAS filed 126 cases by confiscating smuggled goods and non-custom paid cars of worth millions of rupees.
According to Customs Preventive, ASO filed 84 cases from 1st January 2017 to 30 April, 2017 whereas 126 cases were filed during the past four months.
Similarly, smuggled goods and non- custom paid cars of worth Rs184 million were confiscated in first four months of last year whereas CAS increased the recovery by 184% and set a record by confiscating luxury non-custom paid vehicles and smuggled goods of worth Rs528 million.
On the directions of Collector Customs Faiz Ahmed, Additional Collector Customs Tayyaba Kiyani constituted a team consisting Superintendent Nasir Tarar, Agha Qadeer Haider, Inspector Amjad Khan, Nasir Saeed, Sajjad Bukhari, Maratib Mushtaq , Saeed Randhawa, Saleem Shahid and Azam Watoo in the supervision of Deputy Collectr Custom Moazzam Raza.
The team on the information of their informers took action by establishing check posts and registered 91 cases by recovering smuggled stuff of worth Rs464 million whereas registered 35 cases by recovering non-custom paid vehicles of worth rupees 64 millions.
Confiscated vehicles included Toyota Land Cruisers, Vitz, Coasters, Corollas and Honda Civics whereas smuggled gods included cigarettes of different brands, used imported tyres, engine oil, motorbike chain, old and new air conditioners, cable wire, cream soap, cloth of different brands, auto parts, artificial leather and different types of mobile phones.
