LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) impounded millions of rupees illegally imported auto-parts, cloth, chemicals from Babu Sabu Interchange on Monday.
Official sources told Customs Today said that on the information of Collector of Customs Preventive Faiz Ahmad the ASO team number-3 intercepted a passenger bus bearing registration no: LES/ 16-7987 of Niazi Bus Service on Daweoo bus registration and recovered 780 units of HD digital receiver, 200 units of auto-parts, 1500 yards of foreign made cloth and 80 kilograms of chemical.
It was said that the smuggled goods were estimated at Rs 3 million and the operation was led by Deputy Collector of Customs ASO Moazzam Raza.
The sources said that the smuggled goods were hidden under the seats and in the specially made areas of the bus by three accused persons who were later identified as Bilal, Noor Muhammad and Jamil residents of Peshawar.
It was said that the accused were not arrested as the goods and articles do not come under the head of 2(s) items under the Customs Act.
Earlier, the ASO team confiscated four trucks of smuggled tomatoes during the acute shortage of the vegetables a few days before and the tomatoes. The tomatoes were auctioned in Rs 3.8 million.
