KARACHI: The Model Customs Collectorate Preventive Karachi staff arrested a passenger at Jinnah International Airport coming from Colombo on Air Lanka flight and recovered 230 mobile phones worth over Rs 2.3 million from his possession.
As many as 67 cell phones were attached with the body of the arrested person namely as Noman, while the rest 163 were recovered from his luggage.
Additional Collector Dr. Tahir Qureshi received the information who passed it on to his team members, Assistant Collector Wasif Malik, IPS Ashraf Zia and SPO Irfan, those detected the accused and recovered the smuggled mobile phones.
Sources claimed that on the information which was gotten during interrogation from the arrested passenger Noman, another more person Asif was arrested later from the parking lot of Jinnah International Airport for whom the mobile phones were being smuggled.
A First Information Report (FIR) has also been registered against Noman Sheikh and Asif by the Customs Preventive officers.