LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has granted a 14-day judicial remands of two accused held in the smuggling of mobile phones and some other items as well from Lahore.
Accused Muhammad Naveed and Muhammad Faisal were arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from Lahore. The customs intelligence has found a huge quantity of mobile phones of different models in a warehouse of the accused.
Sources of Customs Today has said the worth of the smuggling mobile phones is more than Rs6million in the local market and the accused have caused the treasury a big loss in the wake of taxes. Sources said they were intercepted by the customs authorities at Hall Road area. The Customs intelligence authorities conducted an operation on the intelligence based information and apprehended both accused. The customs intelligence also recovered accessories of mobile phones from their possession.
The customs recovered 340,000 mobile phone chargers, hand-frees and data cables from a warehouse belonged to the accused.
The customs investigation team had presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remands to investigate more on the issue that was approved by the court.
Customs Judge Tahir Sabir approved their remands for three days. After the completion of the remands, the customs team had presented them again before the court for further action and court sent them to prison on 14-day judicial remands.
The customs has registered a case against the accused and launched investigation as well after impounding the vehicle and cloths that they were trying to smuggle. The customs authorities have registered a case against them under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
