KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi has directed investigation officer to complete investigation and final charge sheet against suspects, Muhammad Ishaque, owner of M/s Muhammad, directors/involved persons of M/s United Marine Agencies (pvt) ltd, and owner/partner of M/s Churra and Company who were booked in a case of deliberately feeding wrong port of loading into Pakistan Customs Computerised System, WeBOC.
During the hearing, the investigation officer informed the court that Muhammad Ishaque imported two consignments declared to contain mesh fabric and an information in this regard was shared by the Customs Appraisement (West) Karachi. However, the Customs Appraisement East learnt that M/s United Marine Agencies (Pvt) Ltd., Karachi allegedly committed fraud by issuing fake bills of landing in place of the original ones and during investigation it was observed that freight forwarders/co-loader/shipping agent M/s United Marine Agencies (pvt) ltd., Karachi, in connivance with the accused importer, have been involved in the clearance of the goods by wrongfully declaring the vital information with regard to the shipper’s name, port of loading, country of origin, etc.
He added that goods were actually shipped from Singapore but the M/s United Marine Agencies (pvt) ltd., Karachi, while filing the Import General Manifest (IGM) in WeBOC fraudulently manipulated the shipper’s name as Changshu Diwang Weaving Co Ltd’, Shanghai, China and port of loading as Shanghai, China.
He pointed out that it has been observed that the subjected goods were wrongly declared to avail inadmissible concession of Pak-China FTA regime under SRO 659(I)/2007. After his arguments, court directed him to compete the investigation and file charge sheet against them.
