KARACHI: The Customs Collectorate has impounded different types of vehicles’ chesses, water body, side-mirrors, radiators and shinning colors worth more than Rs8.50million on Saturday.
Sources told Customs Today that, on the directives of Deputy Collector Gwadar Junaid Mehmood, an operation against smuggled items and non-duty-paid luxury vehicles is going on in full swing and several raids have been conducted during previous month of November and operation against smuggled items is still going on during the month of December.
Sources told CT that on Saturday morning deputy collector Gwadar constituted a team of Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) under the supervision of Customs Preventive Inspector Junaid-ur-Rehman and others. The team, during a search operation on Gwadar Highway, intercepted a truck bearing registration No: QS-2884 which was going out of the city.
During the raids, the customs team impounded three vehicles chesses, 50 pieces of water body, 50 pieces of side-mirror and 50 radiators.
The customs team arrested three smugglers involved in smuggling and registered an FIR against the accused and started investigations.
It is necessary to mention here that the Customs Collectorate has impounded different types of fabrics including Indian silk, Iranian bed-sheets and velvet fabrics worth more than Rs6.20million. Different kinds of Iranian juices and Iranian non-duty-paid carpets worth more than Rs6.50million and different types of computer accessories worth more than Rs4.26 million, including 50 LED flat screen monitors, 25 laptop Acer brands,500 (4GB Laptop Ram) and huge quantity of data cables and hard wires worth Rs4.26million were seized during two raids.
