FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO), Faisalabad conducted various operations against smugglers and recovered various goods worth Rs3.724million during third week of December fiscal year 2016-17.
Sources told Customs Today, that Deputy Collector Muhammad Rizwan Khan constituted a team to curb smuggling in the region. The ASO team comprising of Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspectors Masood Saeed Chauhan and Safdar Ali, Muhammad Ashraf, Liaquat Ali, Israr Ahmad and Muhammad Abdullah (sepoys). During various raids in the region the team seized smuggled goods and three non-duty paid vehicles worth Rs2.3 million under the head of Customs U/S Act 157 of the 1969.
Customs sources said that in the smuggled goods included foreign origin clothes (690-kg), worth Rs3,600,00, auto parts (730 kg), worth Rs369,582, medicine (619 kg), worth Rs171380 and other different items under the value of Rs523764. All these items were brought into the country without payment of custom-duty and taxes.
Faisalabad ASO seized these items due to violation 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.
