KARACHI: Customs (Taxation & Anti-Smuggling) Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi directed the investigation officers to seize all moveable and immoveable properties of absconder accused named Muhammad Naeem Qureshi s/o Muhammad Rustam declared Proclaimed Offender in 32 different cases of mis-declaration and tax evasion causing losses of billions of rupees to national exchequer.
During the hearing, investigation officers Qasim Ali Alvi, Abdul Rasheed, Muhammad Sadique, Rana Gulzar, Akmal Hashmi and Syed Adnan Kafeel submitted a report of the proceedings against him under Section 87 (proclamation for person absconding) and 88 (attachment of property of person absconding) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The court issued time and again non-bailable warrants against him but police failed to execute the warrants. At a previous hearing, the court asked the investigation officer to initiate proceedings of proclamation and attachment of property.
It needs to be pertained here that the accused was involved in 32 cases, most of which were registered in 2008. Almost in all the cases, said accused had been charge-sheeted under Section 512 (record of evidence in absence of accused) of the criminal procedure code and shown as absconder in police investigation reports.
