KARACHI: Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) of the Model Customs Collectorate (MCC) Preventive has raided city’s famous mobile market in Saddar area and sealed number of mobile dealers shops, it is learnt.
The official sources told Customs Today that the ASO team raided the mobile market located on main Abdullah Haroon Road in Saddar and sought invoice and custom paid receipts from the shopkeepers and mobile dealers.
However, the cell phone dealers failed to provide any legal documents to the customs authorities that resulted in sealing of more than ten shops at the market, sources added. After the major raid in the market, the leaders of the mobile phone traders approached the customs authorities to hold talks with them for the resealing of the shops and the talks are yet underway, the sources disclosed.
It is pertinent to mention here that Customs Today few days ago had filed a story disclosing that the business community particularly the FPCCI and KCCI would be taken into confidence for launching major crackdown in the Karachi markets. According to sources, the Customs Intelligence had reports that few traders of the city were allegedly involved in facilitating the smuggling of contrabands and their sale in the local markets.
The sources claimed that the city traders were selling the smuggled goods that are tantamount to facilitate the smuggling of goods.
