FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Faisalabad has conducted various operations against smugglers on the special instructions of Deputy Collector Shah Samad Hamadani and recovered smuggling goods worth Rs3.7million during a third week of March.
Sources told Customs Today that Assistant Collector Shah Samad Hamadani constituted a team to curb the smuggling. The ASO team, consisting of Ch M Sardar, Superintendent, Faizi Raza, M Nasir, Muhammad Munir and Umar Bhatti, Inspectors, and Shah Newaz, Liaquat Ali, Israr Ahmad and M Abdullah (Sepoys), impounded non-duty-paid Toyota Fielder car bearing registration No: WV-680 worth Rs800000, Toyota Land Cruiser No: BD-3470, Model 1996, valued at Rs400000, diesel generator sets with carrier vehicle of Toyota pickup priced at Rs950000 and Suzuki Jimmni Jeep, Model 1993, worth Rs60000 and seized six bottles of liquor valued at Rs950000 which were smuggled into the country without payment of custom duties and taxes.
Sources said that the Faisalabad ASO took into possession items and vehicles under Section of the Import and Export Control Act-1950 punishable under Section 156(1)89(i) 90 of the Customs Act-1969 and forwarded the cases to the Customs Adjudication Faisalabad for legal action.
