FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) has confiscated four units of illegally imported diesel engine without gear box for heavy vehicles worth Rs 1.2 million and impounded a vehicle worth Rs 600,000.
On a tip-off received through Model Customs Collectorate Faisalabad Collector Tauseef Ahmed Qureshi, the ASO team intercepted a vehicle bearing registration number FSK–852 near Jamia Chistia Chowk, Sargodha Road, Faisalabad. The officials recovered four units of the diesel engine from the vehicle and asked the driver, Samar Iqbal, to show the documents regarding the legal import of the items.
However, he failed to produce documentary evidence of legal import/lawful possession of the subject goods, on which the customs officials seized the items and impounded the vehicle.
The raid was conducted by ASO team comprising Superintendent Zhahid Raza Bukhari, Inspector Muhammad Munir Ahmad, Mehmood Ahmed Dogar and others.
