FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) confiscated 6,300 yards of smuggled foreign origin art silk cloth of AZ Beijing Fashions brand worth Rs 762,856 involving duty/taxes amounting to Rs 255,706.
The ASO has seized smuggled cloth under Section 148 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 read with Section 3 (1) 3 of Import and Export Control Act, 1950 punishable under Section 156 (I) 89 (i) of the Custom Act, 1969. The cloth was being transported from Lahore to Faisalabad through a bus bearing Registration No. LXP-2564.
Sources told Customs Today that the ASO received credible information through Model Customs Collectorate Collector Zulafqar Ali Chaudhary that non-duty paid foreign origin art silk cloth would be smuggled into Faisalabad.
Following the information, the team established check post near Motorway Chowk Kamal Pur, Sargodha Road, Faisalabad and intercepted a bus. The officials recovered imported cloth and asked the driver named Ghulam Muhammad to produce the documents regarding the legal import of the cloth but he could not do the same.
Therefore ASO team comprising Superintendent Muhammad Javed Mehmood, Deputy Superintendent Sardar Muhammad, Inspectors Masood Saeed Chohan and Abdul Jabbar, Sepoys Khalid Dogar, Zulifqar Ali Awan, Liaqat Ali, Israr Ahmad and others participated in the operation.
