KARACHI: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has issued non-bailable arrest warrants for the arrest of absconding accused in a case pertaining to the fraudulent import of pharmaceutical raw material that caused millions of rupees loss to the national exchequer.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi adjourned the hearing until February 8.
According to the details of the case, prime suspect Muhammad Ali Chandna of Pure Enterprises and his other accomplices have been booked for importing pharmaceutical raw material from China and India by mis-declaring the description of the goods.
The Model Customs Collectorate Appraisement-West’s Appraising Intelligence Branch (AIB) unearthed the scam last year in which it found that Chandna, Ziauddin of Chemi Zone and Rajab Ali of M/s Rajab had fraudulently imported pharmaceutical raw material by declaring them as Preservative ACJC-240-430 under SDO-222 under HS Code 3824.9099.
Chandna had been released on bail by the Sindh High Court (SHC); however, his other accomplices are still at large.
