GWADAR: The Customs Collectorate seized huge quantity of electronics items and non duty paid mobile phones worth Rs 8.50 million.
Sources told Customs Today on Wednesday that deputy collector Gwadar Junaid Mehmood received secret information that some smugglers are trying to smuggle electronics items and non duty paid mobile phones from Gwadar to Karachi.
After receiving this information, he constituted a raiding team under supervision of Customs Preventive Inspector Yousuf Yahya Khan and others. The team, during a search operation near Exit Road Gwadar city, intercepted a truck bearing registration no MDH-9274.
During a search, the team impounded 100 led TV’s, 100 computer monitors, 500 sets of multimedia speakers, 12,000 meters of electric wires and other things valued at Rs 8.50 million.
Customs team seized all the smuggled items and arrested a smuggler, who was later identified as Noorul Ameen. Sources said that investigations are started and FIR will be lodged soon in this regard.
