MULTAN: Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization recovered Rs12 million of non-customs paid light traffic vehicles (LTV) tyres in two different successful raids at the private warehouse.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Ambreen Ahmad Tarar has intensified the crackdown against smuggled goods under the special directions of Chief Collector Centre Region Zeba Hai Azhar to curtail smuggling in South Punjab and anti-smuggling squad has stepped up its efforts in the jurisdiction.
It is also reliably learnt here that Chief Collector Centre Region Zeba Hai Azhar has unified anti-smuggling strategy with Collector Ambreen Ahmad Tarar to curb menace of smuggling in the South Punjab and Customs department has also accelerated crackdown in the territory for curbing menace of smuggled goods after clear directions from the chief collector.
Collector Ambreen Ahmad adopted aggressive strategy against smuggled goods on the directions of chief collector and she received secret information from her source that huge quantities of smuggled tyres were dumped in the different warehouses of Nawn Shehar Abdali road Multan City.
Collector Ambreen formed special team which comprised of Superintendent Muhammad Ramzan Seyal, Inspector Waqas Leghari, Inspector Maqsood Ahmad, Inspector Muhammad Saleem, Inspector Abdul Samad and others to take stern action against them.
Multan Customs obtained search warrants from local magistrate to seek permission for the inspection of said warehouses located in the Nawan Shehar.
Multan Customs raided warehouses where they recovered huge quantity of foreign origin non-Customs paid tyres were dumped at godowns.
It was also revealed during raid that said non-Customs paid tyres were stored in the godowns and old tyres were repacked and sold as new ones. Smugglers used to supply tyres in the retail markets of South Punjab. Customs teams recovered almost 1500 foreign origin tyres of different brands and said light traffic vehicles (LTV) were shifted to State Warehouse. Multan Customs Anti-Smuggling has shown exceptional performance in the month of January due to active participation of field staff and they have already detected illegal warehouses of cigarettes and High Speed Diesel in successful different operations.
Multan Customs has seized the tyres under Customs act 1969 and started action against owner of godowns. Sources told Customs today that Multan Customs continued to make achievements in anti-smuggling work without compromising the objectives of trade facilitation in region. Anti-Smuggling Organization has bolstered up intelligence exchange and co-operation with law-enforcement agencies to curb smuggling in the jurisdiction. Further investigations against owners of warehouses are still under process.
