LAHORE: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) Lahore has seized non-duty paid contraband goods and articles, including auto-spare parts worth millions of rupees.
Sources told Customs Today that two buses were coming from Mardan and Peshawar loaded with the auto parts and were impounded as the owners of the buses failed to produce any legal documents against the seized items.
Meanwhile, the Customs Intelligence team also confiscated a truck loaded with tyres, cloth and other illegally imported items. The sources said that the truck was loaded with Rs 10 million illegally imported items.
The sources said that the customs authorities also seized the illegal items from bus bearing registration number LES/499. The bus was detained near Sherakot.
It was reported that the illegal items were hidden in the secret parts of the bus. The bus which was coming from Mardan was identified as E1/245 and was also intercepted near Sherakot.
The sources said that the operations against the buses and truck were conducted under the supervision of Deputy Director Ali Zeb Khan while the team comprising Superintendent Waqar Cheema, Sohail Murtza, Nadeem Ahsan participated in the operation.
The sources said that the customs authorities after impounding the illegal items have started further investigations.
