HYDERABAD: The Model Customs Collectorate Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) confiscated smuggled items worth Rs 44.65 million from Hyderabad, Larkana and Sukkur, which falls in its jurisdiction during December, 2015.
Following the directions of Hyderabad Customs Collector Dr Ahmad Mujtabad Memon, the ASO teams conducted various anti-smuggling activities in order to save the national exchequer. The team confiscated different items, including vehicles, cloth, tyres and tubes, auto parts, diesel, foreign origin cigarettes, electronic items, blankets, medicines, crockery, gutka and other items.
During the December, 21,343 yards smuggled cloth worth Rs 4.32 million, vehicles worth Rs 17.5 million, auto parts, including 714 pieces of car alloy rims and 40 pieces of tyres and tube worth Rs 5.2 million, 33,100 litres of Iranian diesel worth Rs 1.866 million, foreign origin cigarettes and 8,769 pieces of different electronic items valued at Rs 6.21 million were seized.
Besides, the ASO also confiscated smuggled medicine, 160 pieces of blanket and crockery worth Rs 5.98 million, 980 sachets of foreign origin gutka and other miscellaneous items including jackets, waistcoats, hand bags, bed sheets, chocolate, ladies shoes, tape, solar plates and mobile phones worth Rs 3.57 million.
Under the supervision of Additional Collector Omar Shafique, the ASO team comprising Superintendent Sikander Akber Phanwar, Deputy Superintendent Anwar Ahmed Siddique, Inspectors Waqar Ahmed baig Nazim Ali, Mushtaq Ali Lakho, Sepoyes Aslam Chohan, Sadiq Ali, Drivers Nisar Ahmdani and Mehmood Khan participated in the raids.
