LAHORE: Special federal court of customs taxation and anti-smuggling has approved the extension of judicial remand of an accused arrested by the customs authorities from Lahore on the charge of smuggling powder milk by showing it as plastic raw material.
Accused Zahid Rasheed was booked by the customs intelligence. Customs intelligence, on a tip-off, intercepted a truck in the suburbs of Lahore city and found it loaded with international branded powder milk.
Customs intelligence raided a warehouse and found a huge quantity of milk. Customs team found 9,349 bags of powder milk. Weight of the recovered powder is 232,000 kilograms.
The value of the milk is Rs70millions. Smuggled milk is made of America, Turkey, Holland, Korea and India. All of the milk was smuggled from these countries by different routes, especially from Afghanistan.
After physical remand, he was sent to jail and now he is on a judicial trial. Customs authorities registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
