LAHORE: Collectorate of Customs Preventive anti-smuggling squad foiled an attempt to smuggle huge quantity of non-duty paid mobile phones worth Rs5 million on Tuesday.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Preventive Faiz Ahmad received credible information about smuggling of mobile phones. He immediately constituted an anti-smuggling squad under supervision of Deputy Collector Moazzam Raza comprising Superintendent Anti Smuggling Organization Agha Qadeer Haider, Inspectors Shahid Khan and Amjad Khan.
The above said squad set up a check post near Thokar Niaz Baig Motorway Interchange and started checking of vehicles. The squad intercepted two vehicles bearing registration no: LZO-7529 and LWO-3319 which were coming from Peshawar and recovered 1220 non duty paid mobile phones.
The anti smuggling squad asked accused persons to provide any relevant legal documents regarding possession and transportation of these mobile phones but they failed to produce any legal documents.
Customs Preventive team seized mobile phones and started further investigations after registering a case.
