LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a two-day physical remand of the accused arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on the charge of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
According to sources of Customs Today, an accused Zahid Rasheed was booked by the customs intelligence while he was trying to smuggle a huge quantity of powder milk of different brands. The Customs Intelligence, on a tip-off, intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk.
Later, the customs intelligence raided a warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. The customs team found 9349 bags of powder milk of different brands. Weight of the recovered powder is 232,000 kilo grams.
The value of the recovered powder milk is Rs70millions. Accused Zahid Rasheed has incurred a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties.
The smuggled milk has been brought from America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. All of the milk was smuggled from these countries by different routes, especially from Afghanistan.
A team of customs investigation on Monday presented accused Zahid Rasheed before the court of Ch Aqal Hussain, Special Judge in the Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling, and asked for the remand of five days to complete investigation from the accused. After listening arguments from both sides, the customs court handed over the accused to investigation team for two days. He will be presented before the court of Ch Aqal Hussain on Wednesday for further legal proceedings.
