FAISALABAD: The Collectorate of Preventive Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) Faisalabad has recovered huge quantity of smuggled ladies cloth worth Rs 6.3 million involving duty and taxes to the tune of Rs 4.5 millions approximately in a successful raid.
According to the details, in pursuance of policy lines given by Chairman Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Shabbar Zaidi and the directives of the Member Customs Operations Jawwad Owais Agha, Customs Preventive has intensified the information based operations against transportation and trade of smuggled goods in the territorial jurisdiction of the Collectorate.
The sources informed Customs Today that acting upon one such information to the effect that a huge quantity of smuggled high quality cloth including ladies shirts and trousers suiting has been brought into the city and stored in a private place located in the area of Kachehri Bazaar Faisalabad.
Superintendent Anjum Sheraz constituted a team under the headship of inspector Abdul Rehman Butt to conduct a raid and recover the smuggled 5 tonnes smuggled ladies cloth stored in a private place.
The team responding in wee hour conducted a successful raid on the said private place and recovered a huge quantity of smuggled imported ladies cloth. During the raid, the owner of the belongings was asked for the legal documents which he failed to produce.
Not a single import document in respect of the recovered cloth weighing more than five tonnes was produced by the owner. Therefore all the smuggled items were seized under the relevant provisions of law.
The value of the seized cloth is said to be approximately Rs 6.5 million in international market. Case has been lodged and further investigations are underway.
