LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved fourteen days judicial remand of the accused, who is arrested in mobile smuggling case from Lahore.
According to details an accused Zabi Ullah Khan was arrested by the Customs Intelligence team from Lahore. Customs Intelligence and Investigation team produced the accused before the Customs Court for obtaining his judicial remand that was approved by the court on Monday.
Accused Zabi Ullah was arrested while trying to smuggle mobile phones to some traders of Hall Road which is a largest mobile phones market in Lahore even in Punjab.
Customs Intelligence team intercepted the accused and recovered huge quantity of mobile phones of different brands. Sources told that Customs Intelligence has recovered 1460 mobile phones. Worth of the recovered mobile phones is more than Rs 10 million in local market. By smuggling these cell phones accused has caused a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of duty and taxes.
Seizure of such a huge quantity of mobile phone sets has raised many questions and Customs Intelligence has initiated a comprehensive inquiry to unearth the real culprits of the crime.
Sources told that these cases involve huge illegal transfer of money from Pakistan. Accordingly, Customs Intelligence has also initiated preliminary money laundering investigations in these cases.
Sources added that the smuggling of mobile phones is also done at large scale through transit trade to Afghanistan. Mobile phones are transited to the Afghanistan and subsequently smuggled back into Pakistan. An in-depth investigation by the Customs Intelligence covering these aspects is underway.
