KARACHI: The Model Customs Collectorate Appraisement-East, under the leadership of Collector Majid Yousfani, has seized three containers laden with sand blocks in place of imported pulses, it is learnt.
Sources told Customs Today that Research and Development (R&D) official on intelligence information checked three containers at the Qasim International Container Terminal (QICT) and found that these containers contained sand blocks.
“The documents reveal that pulse was imported by the importer from Tanzania and the same were shifted to NLC terminal”, sources added.
According to the sources, further investigations were underway and intelligence authorities were checking all aspects of the consignment.
While, the importer’s demand of allowing him up to the container and his repeated demands that he would file insurance claims make the whole process doubtful, the sources added.
The sources further added that it was feared that the containers might have been change or the pulses were off-loaded while their transfer from QICT to NLC.
