KARACHI: The Customs Court granted pre-arrest bail to suspect namely Examining Officer of Customs Appraisement Mir Hammal Khan against the surety of Rs100,000, who was booked in four mega mis-declaration scam case.
On September 07, 2018, counsel for the suspects filed bail petition and argued that his counsel is innocent and was falsely implicated in this case, who is ready to face trial, therefore, court may grant him bail till final order in this case. After the hearing court granted him bail against the surety of Rs100,000.
Court also issued notices to investigation officer and special prosecutor for customs department for next date of hearing. The suspect was also directed to appear before the court on next date of hearing or otherwise.
According to the first information report, on a credible information received in directorate general that certain importers are involved in import/clearance of used machinery items by mis-declaration of description and value aiming at evasion of leviable duty/taxes besides clearance of used items in violation of Appendix-C of the Import Policy Order, 2106.
A team of customs officials re-examined the cleared consignments grounded containers and as a result of re-examination, gross mis-declaration of description was found besides clearance of undeclared/used banned items including used bench drill machine with motor, used tyres changer machine, used bar bending machine, used bakery mixer, used welding machine, iron and steel, remeltable crap consisting of drill, electric parts, robin, packing machine pressure washer exchanger, used wheel castor, used frequency inverter total 83 items, assessable value of the goods has been worked out to Rs6,883,804 as against declared value of Rs6,227,120 involving evasion of duty and taxes amounting to Rs773,002 which are recoverable from the importer, the FIR added.
Investigations further revealed that the above named importer in collusion with the clearing agent, M/s Toheed Brothers, Karachi have individually and collectively violated the provisions of Section 16, 25, 32 (1) & (2) 32(2) 32(A) & 70 (i) of the Customs Act, 1969 read with Appendix-C of Import Policy Order 2016 and other related laws.
