FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Faisalabad conducted various operations against smugglers and recovered various items worth Rs06million during the last week of June 2017.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Collector Usman Tariq constituted a team to curb the smuggling attempts. The ASO team consisted of Superintendent Dilawar Hussain, Inspectors Khalid Ashraf Noor, Ali Zahid and Sepoys Muhammad Ashraf, Liaquat Ali, Israr Ahmad and Muhammad Abdullah.
The team impounded a non-duty-paid vehicle valued Rs01.5million under Section (U/S 157). Under the said section, vehicles are used for smuggling transportation. The vehicle was smuggled into the country without payment of customs duty and taxes. Foreign origin (F/O) and other miscellaneous items taken into possession were of value Rs03million.
The ASO team asked the accused to provide legal documents regarding the legal import of the items but he failed to do so.
Faisalabad ASO seized the items under contravened Import and Export Control Act-1950 punishable under Section 156 (1)89(i) 90 of the Customs Act-1969.
The case has been forwarded to the Customs Adjudication for further legal action.
