Hyderabad: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Hyderabad has seized smuggled items worth Rs 15.3 million involving duty/taxes amounting to Rs 8.1 million during July, 2015.
As per details, the ASO team, following the instructions of Collector Model Customs Collectorate Hyderabad, Dr Ahmad Mujtaba Memon, confiscated non-duty paid vehicles, cell phones and its accessories, Iranian juice, cigarettes, gutka and other goods during the month.
Official sources told Customs Today that the ASO impounded a non- duty paid vehicle, Toyota Land Cruiser Prado bearing registration NO. BD-3773 worth Rs 1 million.
Besides, it seized 654 sets of cell phones and accessories worth Rs 6.83 million involving duty/tax amounting to Rs 1.54 million, 585 kilograms foreign origin gutka valued at Rs 2.6 million and 24 cartons of foreign origin cigarettes of Pine brand worth Rs 960,000 involving duty/taxes amounting to Rs 606,829.
ASO Hyderabad also confiscated 1785 yards of smuggled foreign origin cloth worth Rs 178,500 involving duty/taxes amounting to Rs 98,219, 495 kg gutka valued at Rs 2.35 million in another operation and 600 crates of Iranian juice worth Rs 912,000 involving duty/taxes to the tune of Rs 558,381 during first month of running fiscal year 2015-16.
ASO team under the supervision of Additional Collector Omer Shafique comprising Deputy Superintendent Sikander Akbar Panhwar, Saleem Shah, Inspector Khair Mohammad Pathan, Momin Shah, Qazi Tousif, Waqar Ahmad Baig, Saeed Aqil Hussain and others took part in different operation to curb smuggling activities in the region.
Talking to Customs Today Additional Collector Omer Shafique said that the ASO Hyderabad was taking effective measures to swoop down the menace of smuggling especially the smuggling of Iranian diesel which was affecting the local markets badly.
