HYDERABAD: Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has seized huge quantity of LEDs, DVDs, CDs, gutka, auto parts, shampoo and other items worth Rs 5.2 million during a crackdown in Hyderabad.
Sources told Customs Today that these items were being smuggled from Lahore to Karachi.
The sources said that collector Customs Hyderabad Dr. Ahmed Mujtaba Memon received a credible information regarding smuggling of above said. He constituted a raiding team under the supervision of additional collector Umer Shafique .
The ASO team raided the premises of M/s Pak International Goods Transport Company and intercepted a vehicle bearing registration No.C-1750 near Hyderabad bypass and recovered huge quantity of foreign goods.
The ASO team asked the driver of the vehicle to produce legal documents regarding import and possession of goods items but he failed to provide any documents in this regard on which customs seized the items under prevailing customs law .
After making seizure report the ASO team deposited the confiscated large quantity of goods in Hyderabad State were house.
The ASO team comprising of deputy superintendent Sikander Akber Pahnwar, inspector Khair Muhammad Pathan, inspector Momin Shah, seizing officer Qazi Abu Tauseef, inspector Mushtaq Ali Lako sepoy, M. Usman Junaiju, participated in the operation.
