KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs Preventive’s Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has geared up crackdown against smuggling of contraband items specially against betel nuts at rail routes.
Sources informed Customs Today that the smuggled goods recovered from a railway bogey are worth Rs5,666,250 but market value is almost double.
Sources said that secret information was received by Collector Preventive Dr Iftikhar Ahmed regarding the smuggling of huge quantity of betel nuts worth millions of rupees through rail route.
Deputy Collector Customs Headquarters Muhammad Faisal reacting over the secret information regarding the smuggling of the contraband items constituted a team and conducted a raid at the city railway station.
The ASO team during the search found a bogey of the luggage train full of sacs containing smuggled betel nuts along with the several sacs of the smuggled betel nuts. The team also recovered Indian-origin gutka and foreign-origin cigarettes.
During the raid, the team of Pakistan Custom recovered forty five bags of betel nuts 4,275 kilograms worth Rs1068750, assorted brand gutka 40 bags containing 2000 packets weighting 435 kilograms worth Rs3262500 and 25 cartons containing 1250 dandas (long packets) of assorted cigarettes worth Rs 1335000.
It’s is worth mentioning here that during the last month, the team of Customs Preventive’s ASO under the supervision of the Deputy Collector Customs
Headquarters Muhammad Faisal reacted over different information received by Collector Preventive Dr Iftikhar Ahmed and after the successful raids recovered huge quantity huge quantity of smuggled betel nuts consignment from a train route.
