KARACHI: The Special Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling on Thursday issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of absconding accused in five cases pertaining to the export of gold worth billions of rupees on fake E-forms.
Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi accepted the challans submitted in the cases by the investigation officer and issued warrants for absconding accused.
According to the prosecution, Wajahat Minhas, Muhammad Zubair, Kashan Iqbal, Hanif Musa, Sajid Abdul Qadir, Muhammad Shahid, Irfan and Syed Abdul Qawi are in custody. However, two accused Syed Tahir Hussain and Kamran Siddiqui have been released on bail. Tahir Ali and Muhammad Shakeel are still at large.
According to the details of the cases, the customs authorities had registered five cases against exporters, including Saani Impex, BD Enterprises and Rubab Corporation, Makkah Enterprises, M/s Reaz Corporation for exporting gold worth billions of rupees on fake E-forms, causing huge losses to the national exchequer.