LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand of an accused apprehended in a currencies’ smuggling case.
Accused Faisal Hussain was arrested by the Customs Preventive at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore. Accused Faisal Hussain was trying to smuggle currencies of Rs2million. The customs authorities recovered dollars, Euros, Pounds and Pakistani currencies from his luggage.
The customs investigation team had presented him before the customs court for getting his physical remand to investigate more that was granted by the court. After the completion of the remand, customs team had presented him again before the court and asked it to send him to jail which was accepted by the judge.
The accused was making an attempt to smuggle the currencies from Lahore into Europe.
The customs authorities have registered a case against the accused and launched an investigation as well after confiscating currencies.
The customs authorities have registered a case against him under Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
