KARACHI: Customs Preventive team has caught a boat carrying thousands of liters smuggled Iranian origin high speed diesel.
According to the details, Customs Preventive showing tremendous performance has recovered smuggled Iranian high speed diesel after a raid in the open sea in the limits of the country’s sea route.
The sources informed Customs Today that the raid was conducted on a secret information received by the higher authorities on which a team under the supervision of deputy collector Customs Preventive Headquarters Ali Raza was constituted.
The deputy collector Customs Preventive Headquarters beefed up the surveillance and directed all the informers to be alert as well as share every single movement of the smugglers in the area.
During the raid at a boat named Alkhaleej, the customs team recovered 65,000 liter smuggled Iranian origin high speed diesel from the secret places of the boat. During the raid three smugglers, named Naeem Bakhsh, Aasa Bilal and Lal Muhammad, were also apprehended from the boat.
The customs officers have taken the smuggled diesel and the boat in the custody and an FIR has been lodged against the culprits involved in the heinous crime, whereas the investigation has been started in the case.
The source also informed that due to the strict checking and vigilance on the land routs now smugglers are trying to smuggle the contraband items as well as diesel from the sea routes. The recent raid is the third biggest action in the open sea after which huge quantity of diesel is recovered. The smuggled Iranian High Speed Diesel (HSD) worth millions of rupees in the market.
