LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved an extension of judicial remand of the accused arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on charges of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
Accused Zahid Rasheed was booked by the customs intelligence. The customs intelligence, on a tip-off, intercepted a truck in suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk. The customs, on the basis of intelligence, raided a warehouse and found 9349 bags of the milk of different brands. The weight of the recovered powder was 232,000 kilograms.
The value of the milk is Rs70million. The milk is made of America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. The milk was smuggled from these countries by different routes, especially from Afghanistan.
After a physical remand, he was sent to jail and now he is on judicial trial. The customs authorities has registered a case against him under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
