LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti -Smuggling issued arrest warrants of the accused in a case of non-duty paid air conditioners smuggling case.
According to details the customs court has issued warrants of the accused Majeed Khan. Earlier, the Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) had seized huge quantity of smuggled air conditioners in an enforcement activity.
Sources told that Collector Faiz Ahmad received credible information regarding movement of smuggled goods. The additional collector advised Deputy Collector ASO Muhammad Moazzam Raza to tighten the vigilance.
The customs staff of ASO intercepted Mazda truck bearing registration no. LXK 4554 loaded with foreign origin 17-numbers indoor units & 11 number outdoor units of air conditioners.
During investigations it came on record that another huge quantity of similar foreign origin air conditioners have been stored in a godown of M/s Tanveer and Company situated at Mohallah Salamat Pura near Orange Train Station Daroghawala and Mominpura, Lahore.
In pursuance of the above information, warrant u/s 162 of the Customs Act, 1969 was obtained from the Judicial Magistrate, Lahore and the staff raided the godown.
On further query, the godown keeper stated that the air conditioners lying in the godown belonged to M/s. Malik & Co, Karachi and M/s. Moon Light, Karachi.
On search conducted in the presence of above said godown keepers and other witnesses, 1481-number indoor units and 1283 outdoor units of split inverter air conditioners of assorted models and capacity were found available there. The approximately value of the goods is Rs120 million. Case has been registered against the owner of the goods Majeed Khan son of Nizam Din & others.
