MULTAN: The Customs Intelligence and Investigation Multan claimed to have captured huge quantity of Industrial base oil worth approximately Rs20 million.
On a tip-off, the Custom I&I carried out an operation against illegal smuggling of industrial oil near Chowk Maitla and seized a huge quantity of oil loaded in a container, weighing approximately 18 tonnes. The operation was led by Customs Intelligence and Investigation Additional Director Nisar Ahmad along with Investigation Officer Saleem Afzal and Constables Zulfiqar and Ramzan. According to preliminary investigation, the oil was smuggled from Quetta by a company namely Frontier Enterprise.
A truck, bearing registration no TKA-088 transported the container containing iron drums filled with industrial base oil and was brought from industrial consumption in Punjab.
Four different samples of oil have been taken from the drums and sent to Hussain Ebarahim Jamal Research Institute of Chemistry for examination.
Additional Director Nisar Ahmad told Customs Today that it was for the first time that the Customs had seized industrial base oil, used in industrial machinery in such a huge quantity. He said that the base oil was being carried in 125 drums and the importers failed to produce any obvious evidence of goods declaration or import.
Amid Hormuz instability, attention shifts to Pakistan’s Gwadar port
GWADAR: Iran has closed and reopened the Strait of Hormuz several times since the US-Iran war began in February. When...
