HYDERABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has seized foreign origin 30 dinner sets valued 240000 involving duty taxes of Rs153480 during a crackdown in Hyderabad.
Sources told Customs Today that these items were brought to Hyderabad from Karachi.
The sources said that Collector Customs Hyderabad Agha Shahid Majeed Khan received a credible information regarding the smuggling of above said items. He constituted a raiding team under the supervision of Additional Collector Omer Shafique.
The ASO team raided the premises of a goods transport company and intercepted a public vehicle and recovered imported non-duty-paid dinner sets.
The ASO team asked the driver for the legal documents of the import and possession of goods but he failed to prove anything in this regard. The customs seized the said items under the customs bylaws.
The ASO team deposited the confiscated foreign origin 30 sets of dinner into Hyderabad State Ware House.
The ASO team, comprising of Deputy Superintendent Sikander Akber Pahnwar, Inspectors Asadu-Din-Mirza, Muhammad Iqbal Mughal Mushtaque Ali Lakho Sepoy, Essa Sarwar, Ayub, Hawaldar Muhammad Ahmed and Driver Javeed, participated in the operation.
