FAISALABAD: Customs Adjudication Additional Collector Beelam ur Ramzan has issued Order-in-Original (ONO) against M/s Mian Maqsood Traders and ordered to seize a consignment worth Rs 2.16 million.
Sources informed that M/s Mian Maqsood Traders imported items including five car doors, 6 set of car seats, 1 car bumper, 16 electric panel box, 262 kilogramme of cable round new multiple core, wheels, 101kg ball bearing, six cylinder diesel engine, reduction gear, 6 self-starter, 4 cylinders for engine, magnetic die with new odds and ends, conveyor belt, submersible pump, air conditioner and 64 microwave ovens worth Rs 2.16 million.
When the consignment arrived at the Faisalabad Dry Port, neither the importer nor any of his authorised persons approached the customs officials for the clearance of the consignment. It was also observed that the condition as well as packing of goods was quite new. Later, the officials lodged a case against the accused company and sent it to the Customs Adjudication for appropriate action.
The sources added that Appraiser Shafqat Rasool and Inspector Nadeem Bhatti appeared before the adjudication authorities on the behalf of the Customs Department, while Naeem Anwar Muhammad Shabbir appeared to defend the case from the respondent’s side. However, he failed to submit any written reply from the respondent company as to why no one had earlier come forward to get the goods cleared from the customs authorities, or whether the consignment was imported legally.
Therefore, the additional collector, after reviewing the arguments submitted by the customs officials, ordered to seize the goods under Clause 14 of Section 156 (1), 157(1) and (2) of the Customs Act, 1969.
