LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has sent two accused to jail on the extension of judicial remand for 14 days.
According to details available to Customs Today, accused Rehmat Ali and Nasir Khan were apprehended by the customs intelligence. After the arrest of the accused, Pakistan Customs Intelligence started investigation against them and got their physical remand as well.
The Customs Intelligence had also recovered a huge quantity of foreign made smuggled cloths and related goods from their possession. The Customs Intelligence told the court that the accused were involved in smuggling of cloths from Afghanistan into Lahore and Faisalabad through different routes. They had caused the national kitty the loss of taxes and duties. They have been involved in smuggling for long. The value of the recovered cloths is Rs08.million, customs investigation has told the court.
The Customs Investigation team presented them before the customs court and asked for their physical remand to dig out the network behind this smuggling mafia. After the completion of the physical remand, they were again produced before the court wherefrom the court sent them to jail for judicial remand. Now again the Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has sent them to jail for further 14 days.
