ABBOTTABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue’s Regional Tax Office (RTO) has seized a huge cache of non-duty paid and smuggled cigarettes worth Rs 4 million to Rs 6 million from Hazara Mall and Mansehra Mall in Mansehra city.
The raids to seize these cigarettes were conducted on the tipoff received by RTO’s Investigation & Prosecution Cell Incharge Fazal Malik.
Abbottabad Chief Commissioner Mahmood Aslam confirmed the raids and seizure of the huge cache of smuggled and non-duty paid cigarettes in different raids. He vowed not to allow anyone to sell and smoking of smuggled, non-duty paid cigarettes, saying, “Hazara Division has no space for the sellers of the smuggled cigarettes.”
Mahmood Aslam warned those involved in the business of illegal cigarettes should stop their business immediately, otherwise stern action would be taken against them. To a question regarding the volume of the seized smuggled and non-duty paid cigarettes, the Chief Commissioner said that the counting the contraband is in progress.
