LAHORE: Customs Lahore Preventive’s Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) on Monday seized illegally imported Samsung Brand LED TVs worth Rs 10 million at Hall Road market, Lahore.
Sources said that a team of the Anti-Smuggling Organisation headed by Superintendent Mumtaz Ajmal Mian, Deputy Superintendents Saleem Akhtar, Deputy Superintendents Ejaz Rasool Shah, Inspector Shahid Bhatti, Inspector Khalid Butt and Inspector Sajad Bukhari intercepted a Mazda Truck bearing registration number LRT 1626 loaded with 350 LED TVs of Samsung brand worth Rs 10 million, involving duty/taxes to the tune of Rs 7 million.
Sources said that the customs could not arrest the accused as driver and the owner of the truck fled, leaving the truck behind.
They added that the ASO team, on the instructions of Customs Collector Mukarram Jah, impounded the truck loaded with the electronics. The customs has registered a case against the accused and initiated investigation into the matter.