FAISALABAD: The Anti Smuggling Organization ( ASO ) has conducted various operations against smugglers after receiving special instructions by Additional Deputy Collector Saeed Asad and recovered smuggled goods worth Rs 10,948,449 during the last week of November.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Collector Muhammad Rizwan constituted a team to curb smuggling. The ASO team consisted of Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspector Ali Zahid, Inspector Khalid Ashraf Noor, and Inspector Khalid Dogar and Muhammad Ashraf, Liaquat Ali, Israr Ahmad and Muhammad Abdullah (sepoys). The team impounded two non-duty paid and tempered vehicles worth Rs 1,450,000 under section (U/S 16 NDP). These vehicles were brought into the country without payment of custom duty and taxes.
Sources said that impounded vehicle was being used for smuggling and transportation of smuggled goods. ASO authorities also impounded six vehicle under section ( U/S 157 ), worth Rs 54,00,000. The team recovered foreign origin tea (175 kgs) worth Rs 27000 and also seized tyres tube (70 nos) worth Rs 350000, auto spare parts Rs. 2,60,000, electronic goods blankets ( 1700 kgs), Rs 4,50,000, and also confiscated miscleanous smuggled items amount to Rs. 1360419 during the said period.
Faisalabad ASO seized all smuggled items under section of Import and Export Control Act. 1950 punishable under Section 156(1)89(i) 90 of the Customs Act 1969 and forward the cases to Customs Adjudication Faisalabad for legal action.
