LAHORE: A team of Collectorate of Customs Preventive has seized non-duty paid mobile phones worth Rs 6 million from two suspects at Allama Iqbal International Airport.
Sources told Customs Today that the team, comprising Inspector Mumtaz Ajmal Mian, Superintendent Abdul Shakoor, Deputy Superintendent Jamshed Ahmed Khan, Masood Tarar, during checking of Airblue flight no PA-411, recovered various non-duty paid goods and mobile phones from two passengers. The flight had arrived from Dubai at about 1.15am.
Sources said that the team intercepted a passenger, Abdul Rehman, and recovered 210 mobile phones of different brands from him. The market value of the seized mobile is Rs 4 million. Sources said that another passenger of the same flight who was identified as Azeem Abbas was also intercepted by customs team.
Abbas was using Green Channel facility when Inspector Jamshed Ahmed Khan asked him to show his suitcase. During the checking, the customs team recovered 110 mobile phones which were tactfully hidden in the suitcase. The team asked both passengers to show legal documents regarding possession of the mobile phones but both passengers failed to show any relevant legal documents.
After their failure, the Customs Preventive team seized the mobile phones, laptop and other goods and registered cases of smuggling against them.
It is also necessary to mention here that Collector Preventive Faiz Ahmad directed customs teams deputed at Lahore airport to use all available resources to curb smuggling through airport.
