FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) has seized foreign origin polyester thread and impounded two trucks being used for the transportation of smuggled items worth Rs 5.8 million.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Dr Zulfiqar Ali Chaudhary received information about smuggling of foreign origin textile polyester thread through two trucks.
Following information, the collector formed a team consisting of Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joyia, Inspector Shaukat Khan, Khalid Noor and Sepoys Muhammad Ajmal, Ahmad Bux and Ghulam Sarwar Shah to foil the smuggling bid. The team intercepted two trucks, a Mercedes Benz truck bearing Registration No LES-13-7090 and an Isuzu truck bearing number LES-15-7366 near Samanabad Bridge Sargodha road, Faisalabad and recovered 22,220 kilogram of China origin polyester thread.
The ASO team asked drivers named Muhammad Asif Shah and Muhammad Pervaiz to produce documents regarding the legal possession and import of polyester. But the drivers remained fail to do the same.
The ASO team seized the polyester and impounded both trucks, besides registering cases against them under Section 168 and 157 of the Custom Act, 1969 for the violation of Section 2(s) read with SRO 566(1)/2005 Section 16, 18 of the customs act.
