HYDERABAD: Directorate of Customs Intelligence & Investigation has seized 24,000 litres of smuggled Iranian diesel worth Rs2.29 million.
Customs Intelligence Director General Shaukat Ali forwarded information to Additional Director Ahsan Khan that huge quantity of smuggled diesel loaded on a tanker would be transported into the country via Karachi. A team of officers of the directorate was constituted to foil such attempt of smuggling.
The suspected vehicle was spotted and the persons in the vehicle could not produce any document regarding the legal import possession and transportation of loaded diesel on the spot. Therefore, the vehicle along with loaded HSD was taken into possession by the staff and escorted to office of Directorate of Intelligence & Investigation, Hyderabad.
