KARACHI: A team of Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) of the Directorate General of Customs Intelligence and Investigation-FBR during a raid confiscated smuggled ceramics tiles weighing 35505kg and costing Rs2.5 million from Super Highway.
According to the details, an ASO team comprising its Incharge Haji Muhammad Aslam, Intelligence Officers Akmal Hashmi, Pervez Zardari, Qasim Alvi and others on a tip-off reached at Toll Plaza near Super Highway and signalled to stop a Hino Truck bearing Registration No.698.
Upon search, smuggled ceramics tiles weighing 35505kg and costing Rs2.5million were recovered from the truck. Later, the ASO team confiscated the truck and goods and registered an FIR against the culprits.
It may be mentioned here that the team of ASO few days ago confiscated foreign cigarettes of different brands and contraband Indian ‘gutka’ during a raid at a go-down located in Joria Bazaar. The confiscated goods were valued at Rs 60 million.
Incharge ASO Haji Muhammad Aslam while talking to Customs Today said that the entire team of ASO has clear directives from the DG Customs Intelligence & Investigation-FBR, Luftullah Virk and Director Customs Intelligence & Investigation-FBR Asif Margoob Siddiqui that smuggling of contraband items should be eliminated at every cost.
He further said that the ASO has left no stone unturned towards the eradication of smuggling of contraband items in the country.
To a query, Haji Muhammad Aslam said that the ASO will continue its efforts against the smuggling and more raids would be conducted in future for elimination of smuggling from the country.
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