LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand of two accused held in the smuggling of mobile phones and some other items as well from Lahore.
Accused Muhammad Naveed and Muhammad Faisal were arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from Lahore. The customs intelligence has found 9700 mobile phones of different models in a warehouse of the accused. Sources of Customs Today have said that the worth of the smuggled mobile phones is more than Rs6million in the local market and the accused have caused the national kitty a huge loss in the wake of taxes. Sources said they were intercepted by the customs authorities at Hall Road.
The customs intelligence executed an operation on the intelligence based information on Hall Road Lahore. The customs intelligence recovered smuggled and non-custom-paid mobile phones and accessories.
The customs recovered 340,000 mobile-phone chargers, hand-frees and data cables from the warehouse belonged to the accused.
The customs investigation team had presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more on the issue that was granted by the court. Customs Judge Tahir Sabir approved their remand for three days. After the completion of the remand, the customs team had presented them again before the court for further action and court sent them to prison on judicial remand.
The customs has registered a case against them and launched an investigation as well after impounding the vehicle and cloths that he was trying to smuggle.
The case was lodged under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
