LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling has approved 14 days judicial remand of the accused who is involved in currency smuggling and handed over them to the customs investigation authorities for interrogation.
Earlier the Pakistan Customs Preventive department has foiled a bid to smuggle huge quantity of foreign currency abroad and arrested 2 culprits at Lahore Airport.
The Custom sources said that during baggage search of two Bangkok-bound passengers at Allama Iqbal International Airport, $ 25,000 was recovered.
The officials confiscated the recovered foreign currency and arrested the two accused who are being interrogated.
Passengers identified as Muhammad Shehzad a resident of Kasur passport number SY 5142662, accused namely Atif was also involved in same case who is a resident of Lahore. Deputy Collector Customs AFU Naveed ul Rehman Bhagvi took action against the accused and arrested them.
Sources has told that arrested accused was allegedly involved in currency smuggling with a gang of money laundering. Allegedly this gang is belonged to Hall Road of Lahore which is a famous market of mobiles and computers in Lahore.
Customs Investigation and Prosecution on 9th October presented the accused before the court and got their physical remand. After completion of the physical remand he was sent to jail for judicial remand that was completed on Thursday. Now the court has extended the remand for further 14 days.
