LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved extension in judicial remand of a suspect who was arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on charges of smuggling of powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
Sources told Customs Today that 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 intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk.
After that customs intelligence on base of investigation raided at a warehouse and found a huge quantity of powder milk. Customs teams found 9349 bags of powder milk of different Weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilo grams.
Sources said that smuggled milk is made of America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. All of the milk was smuggled from these countries by different routs especially from Afghanistan. After completion f physical remand he was sent to jail and now he is on judicial tremand.
Customs Investigation has registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act 1969.
