FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) seized non-duty paid foreign origin cloth valued Rs246,450 involving duty and taxes amounting to Rs93,651.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Zulfikar Ali Chaudhary got a tip-off regarding the smuggling of cloth. The collector constituted a special team, comprising Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya and Inspectors Ali Zahid, Mehmood Ahmed Dogar, Dilawar Hussain, Liaqat Ali, Zulifkar Ali Awan and Muhammad Arshad.
The ASO team intercepted a Daewoo Express near Akbar Chowk, Faisalabad, and recovered 155-kilogram of smuggled cloth from the bus. The ASO seized all the cloth under Section 2(s) read with SRO 566(1)/2005 and Section 16, 18 of the Customs Act-1969 with Section 3 of Sales Tax Act-1990, Section 148 of Income Tax Ordinance-2001.
The consignment was being transported from Lahore to Faisalabad. The team asked the driver, identified as Ali Azeem son of Muhammad Islam, and his accomplice Muhammad Usman to produce legal documents of the loaded goods but he failed.
The Anti-Smuggling Organization, after registering a case against accused, forwarded the case to the Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
