LAHORE: Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling extended the judicial remand of accused involved in tax evasion through fake E-forms.
Earlier, Customs Court had sent him on 14-days judicial remand which has now been prolonged for more 14 days.
As per detail, customs detected a company freight.com, owned by Najam Raza S/o Laal Hussain involved in illegal exchange of money and tax evasion through fake and bogus documents. While raiding the office of freight.com, customs recovered fake E-forms, cheque books of different banks and online trading form. Freight.com was involved in illegal online business in Lahore and other cities of Pakistan.
After lodging the case against accused, customs presented the accused before court to get physical remand for interrogation where court sent the accused on physical remand two times on the request of customs than customs court sent him on 14-days judicial remand.
According to details available to Customs Today a case was registered against the owner of fright.com under Section 14,9 (1) of Article 156 of Pakistan Customs Act 1969 and under Section 12 (12) of Foreign Exchange Regulation Act of Pakistan.
