FAISALABAD: The Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) has confiscated 20 tyres and tubes worth Rs 600,000 involving duty and taxes amounting to Rs 176,580 during an action.
As per details, ASO Additional Collector Muhammad Saeed Asad received information that non-duty paid foreign origin tyres and tubes would be smuggled into Faisalabad.
He immediately constituted a team comprising Superintendent Saeed Akhtar Joiya, Inspectors Khalid Ashraf Noor, Ali Zahid, Sepoys Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Khalid, Afzal Hussain, Muhammad Ashraf and Liaqat Ali to conduct the raid.
The ASO team raided the Pak Hakim Goods Transport Company Jhang Road, Faisalabad and recovered foreign origin tyres and tubes that were brought into Faisalabad from Karachi.
The team asked the manager of M/s Pak Hakim Goods to produce the documents regarding legal import of the tyres and tube but he could not do the same.
The ASO team seized the recovered items under Section 2(s), read with SRO 566(1)/2005 Section 16, 18 of the Customs Act, 1969 and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
