ISLAMABAD: The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation, Federal Board of Revenue Rawalpindi, has launched a drive against smuggled vehicles and took into possession a used foreign origin non-duty-paid smuggled BMW 745i car worth Rs15.5million.
On a tip-off, a team of the directorate general customs intelligence and investigation Rawalpindi, comprising Intelligence Officers Maqbool Ahmad and Shahid Majeed, signalled the tipped-off car to stop but the driver accelerated the vehicle.
The staff started chasing the BMW in a government vehicle. After covering some distance, the driver parked the BMW on the roadside and fled the scene. Despite hectic efforts, the team could not trace out the driver of the car, so the vehicle was impounded in the presence of the witnesses.
No import record existed as per import data of the vehicles available with the directorate. Nobody appears before the Rawalpindi directorate nor produced any legal import documents in respect of recovered foreign origin vehicle. Hence, the BMW car was taken into possession being non-duty-paid and unclaimed under Section 17 of the Customs Act-1969 for further verification of its import and auction status and payment of duty and taxes.
