LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has asked the investigation team of customs investigation and prosecution to complete an investigation challan of the accused in the next hearing of the case of money laundering. The court has approved a 14-day judicial remand of the accused arrested in the currency smuggling case.
An accused Faisal Hussain was held by the customs preventive authorities at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore. The customs authorities, during a search of his luggage, found a huge quantity of currency.
Accused Faisal Hussain was trying to smuggle currencies of Rs2million. The customs authorities found dollars, Euros, Pounds and Pakistani currency in his luggage. The customs investigation team had presented him before the customs court for getting his physical remand to investigate more on the issue that was granted by the court.
After the completion of the remand, the customs team had presented him again before the court and told it that all the investigation has been done so the court can send him to jail.
The customs preventive apprehended the accused who was making an attempt to smuggle said currencies from Lahore into Europe.
The customs investigation team had presented him before the court of special judge of customs taxation and anti-smuggling Shakeel Ahmad and asked for his judicial remand for14 days.
The customs has registered a case against the accused and launched an investigation as well after confiscating the cell phones that he was trying to smuggle.
The authorities have registered a case against him under the Pakistan Customs Act-1969.
