FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has conducted various operations against smugglers and seized miscellaneous goods worth Rs 6.41 million.
Sources told Customs Today that collector Faisalabad Dr Zulfiqar Ali Chaudhary received information about different smuggling attempts. After which he constituted an ASO team headed by deputy collector Falik Shair Ali and Muhammad Javed Mehmood (superintendent), Sardar Muhammad (deputy superintendent ), Masood Saeed Chohan, Abdul Jabbar (inspector), Muhammad Ashraf, Liaquat Ali, Israr Ahmad and Muhammad Abdullah (sepoys).
The ASO team seized smuggled cloth worth Rs 1.17 million while anti-smuggling organization also confiscated different type of three vehicles whichwere brought into the country without payment of custom duty and taxes worth Rs 1.3 million.
The ASO team asked owners of these seized items to produce legal documents regarding possesion of these items but they failed to provide the same. The ASO team arrested the accused persons involved in smuggling and registered separate cases against them.
