LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling on Saturday sent two suspects to jail on 14 days judicial remand.
According to details available to Customs Today, the suspects, Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan, were arrested by the Customs Intelligence team. After arresting the accused, Customs Intelligence started investigations against them and got their physical remand.
The Customs Intelligence also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloth and goods from their possession. The Customs Intelligence team told the court that the accused persons were involved in smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan to Lahore and Faisalabad via different routes. They had caused a huge loss to the national kitty in the wake of taxes and duties. They were involved in smuggling for long time. The worth of the recovered cloth is Rs 8.3 million, customs investigation team has told the court.
Customs Investigation team produced them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out network behind this smuggling mafia. After completion of physical remand they were produced before the court again where the court sent them jail for judicial remand. Now again the Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti Smuggling has sent them to jail for further remand of fourteen days.
