LAHORE: Model Customs Collectorate Lahore Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has sealed the Sakhwat Tyres’ godown due to the storage of illegally imported tyres.
Official source told Customs Today that the ASO team on the instructions of Customs Collector Mukarram Jah Ansari raided a Tyre godown at the Riwali Cinema Tyre market Lahore.
Sources said that the raid was conducted on a tip-off that illegally imported tyres were being stored at the ‘Sakhwat Tyre’s godown’ and supplied afterward to the local market evading duty and taxes posing loss of millions of rupees to the national exchequer.
ASO team comprising Superintendent Mumtaz Ajmal Mian and Deputy Superintendent Saleem Akhtar and Inspectors Khalid Butt and Shahid Bhatti raided the godown and sealed it.
Sources added that a case has been registered in this regard against the accused, while further investigations are under way.
