KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs team deputed at Jinnah International Airport (JIAP) seized 58 smuggled phones worth Rs10 million.
Sources told that Deputy Collector Inamullah Wazir received credible information about smuggling of mobile phones. He directed customs team who deputed at Arrival and Departure Lounge of Jinnah International Airport to enhance vigilance. During checking of passenger’s luggage who arrived via Emirates Airlines a shopping bag was scanned which was recovered from washroom of immigration area after reports of an unattended bag were received.
On scanning, it was revealed that the phones worth over Rs10 million were present in the bag.
Earlier on May 11, staffers of the Drug Enforcement Cell of the Pakistan Customs deputed at the International Mail Office, II Chundrigar Road, found 1.98 kilograms of heroin in a parcel during the checking of parcels being sent abroad.
Irfan Ali, a spokesman for the customs, said that the parcel containing baby garments and jackets was being sent from Peshawar to Birmingham, UK. The Customs officials confiscated the contraband having an estimated value of Rs19 million, and lodged a case under narcotics and customs act against a citizen of Peshawar who had booked the parcel.
The collector customs, airport, Irfanur Rehman, constituted a committee under the supervision of the additional collector, JIAP, Farrah Faroque, to arrest the suspect at large. The Deputy Collector customs, JIAP, Inamullah Wazir , is heading the committee.
