FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) of the Customs Department has seized two imported generators. The market value of the seized generators is Rs7 million involving customs duty and taxes assessed Rs1.9 million.
Sources informed Customs Today that Additional Deputy Collector Muhammad Saeed Asad received a tip-off about the lying of two generators on an identified place transported from Lahore to Faisalabad. The party headed by Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya of the Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO), Faisalabad, along with team raided the place and recovered the said used diesel generators weighed 6,510 kg and one alternator for generator weighed 1,040 kg without payment of duty and taxes.
The team asked accused Malik Naseer, a resident of 202 R.B Bhaiwala Faisalabad, and Tanveer Hussain son of Muhammad Ismail (Owner of Generators), to produce legal documents of the items but they failed to do so.
The Anti-Smuggling Organization forwarded the case to the Customs Adjudication.
The ASO team comprised Inspectors Khalid Akhtar Noor, Masood Saeed Chohan, Ali Zahid and Sepoys Muhammad Khalid, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Javed and Naeemullah.
