LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) team detained 727 mobile phones from a car near Hall Road.
Sources told Customs Today that on 24.9.2018, Additional Deputy Collector Tayyaba Kayani received credible information about smuggling of mobile phones. She immediately constituted anti-smuggling squad under supervision of Deputy Collector Muhammad Moazzam Raza and comprising Superintendent Agha Qadeer Haider, Inspectors Waheed Bhatti, Nasir Saeed and Saleem Shahid.
The ASO team started checking of vehicles and intercepted a car bearing registration no: ZS-957 ICT near Hall Road. During checking of vehicle, the ASO team recovered 725 non-duty paid mobile phones of assorted brands. The market value of seized mobile phones is Rs2 million while value of vehicle is around Rs2.5 million.
Sources told that Customs Preventive ASO team registered a case while further investigations are still under process till the filing of this report.