LAHORE: Directorate of Customs Investigation and Intelligence (I and I) Lahore has intensified crackdowns on smugglers and seized contraband items and vehicles worth Rs 14.5 million in a number of recent anti-smuggling operations.
According to details, the directorate of Lahore Customs on the information and directives of director Imran Saud has conducted various anti-smuggling raids and impounded smuggled cloth, soaps, tea, LEDs, plastic crush, and one BMW.
Sources told Customs Today that Customs team intercepted a bus loaded with illegal imported items worth Rs 5 million.
Customs on credible information raided in Defense area and confiscated Rs 6.5 million BMW from, a resident of Ghazi Road, who was using the vehicle on a fake number plate. Likewise, the anti-smuggling team seized illegal items worth Rs 3 million from Misri Shah.
Anti-smuggling raids were led by superintendent Nasir Minhas, Rauf Farooqi, Rafique Bhatti and supervised by Deputy director Saad Atta Rabani.
Official sources said that director Saud Imran has evolved a comprehensive and effective strategy to crackdown the smuggling activities in the Lahore and Faisalabad region.
They added that the director has instructed all the officers to work hard and bring the elements involved in the smuggling to the book.
