KARACHI: The Customs Court granted pre-arrest bail to suspects Muhammad Rehan, Qurban Ali and Muhammad Adnan, who were nominated in a case of evading duties and taxes to the tune of Rs74,036,216.
On 26 September 2019, above-mentioned suspects appeared before the court along with their counsels, and moved pre-arrest bail applications and argued that their clients are innocents and have been falsely implicated in this case. They are ready to face trail, however, they have apprehension of arrest, therefore, court may grant their pre-arrest bail.
After the hearing, court granted their bail against the surety of Rs300,000 and directed them to appear before the court on next date of hearing for confirmation or otherwise.
According to the interim charge sheet against Imran owner of M/s Al-Aswed Associates, Muhammad Irfan of M/s ERA Marine Agencies, Ihtishaam and Muhammad Idress of M/s SHUFS logistics, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ahsan, Muzamil and others, an information was received that above-mentioned importers imported a consignment declared to have 92 bales of used clothing weighing 16600 kilograms manifested to have been shipped from United Kingdom contrary to actual port of loading Jabel Ali, UAE.
He further stats that information further revealed that the importers in active connivance with their clearing agents and other accomplices have mis-declared the description, quantity, origin, classification of the imported goods by submitting false, fake and fabricated information to evade legitimate of government revenue.
He disclosed that during the examination of said consignment, customs officials found multifunction printers, used laptops, laptops cables, smart phones, used LG tables with SIM and others goods having total value of Rs 70,874,595.
