HYDERABAD: Anti-Smuggling Organization Hyderabad has seized 60 smuggled bundles of 5115 yard of gents’ shirts’ cloths worth Rs3.8million involving duty taxes of Rs2.1million during an operation near Hyderabad bypass.
Smuggled item was being transported from Karachi to Shaiwal.
Following strict instruction by Hyderabad Customs Collector Akhlaq Ahmad Khattaq, ASO team conducted various anti-smuggling activities to protect the national exchequer.
ASO team, headed by Additional Collector Customs Hyderabad Rehmatulah Vistro, constituted a raiding party, comprising Superintendent Ghulam Shabbir Phulpoto, Inspectors Mirza Asad Uddin, Iqbal Mughal, Imdad Abro, Abid Khan, Mushtaq Ali Lakho, Sepoys Nenomal, Luqman, Abdul Razaq, Saddiq Khaskheli, Sarwar Ayoub, Drivers Sher Akbar, Ajaz Saddam, Jawaid Mashkoor, Nisar Ahemdani, which took part in the operation.
ASO team intercepted a vehicle with registration No: TKX-581 near Hyderabad bypass and recovered the said clothes.
Prior to the recovery, officials asked the driver to produce any legal document about the possession of the item but he was unable to produce any legal documentary evidence. So the consignment was confiscated. A case was registered and an investigation was also started.
