FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) has seized a smuggled Toyota Aqua car worth Rs1628160 involving duty and taxes to the tune of Rs828160.
Sources told Customs Today, that in pursuance of information the ASO special team proceeds to the designed place and intercepted non duty paid Toyota Aqua car bearing registration number: AAB-273 Islamabad model 2010 near Peoples Colony No 1 Faisalabad. At the time of detection the vehicle was found and parked on road.
The ASO team asked the driver of the vehicle namely Munawar Hussain son of Sardar Muhammad to produce legal documents regarding possession of the vehicle but the driver remained failed to produce any legal documents.
After his failure ASO team impounded the vehicle under section 2(s), read with SRO 566(1),2005 section 16, 18, 157, 168, and 178 of the Customs Act 1969 and Section 3 of Sales Tax Act, 1990, Section 148 of Income Tax Ordinance 2001 and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
The ASO team comprising Superintendent Chaudhary Muhammad Sardar, Inspector Muhammad Munawar Rathore, Muhammad Atif Mumtaz, and Zulifqar Ali Wahla, Iqbal Gujjar sepoy and others take part in the seizure operation.
