LAHORE: Directorate of Customs Intelligence & Investigation (I&I) team has unearthed a godown of foreign origin smuggled crockery (mostly Iranian origin) near Saggian, Lahore. The worth of smuggled glass ware (crockery) is approximately Rs20 million.
Director Customs Intelligence Lahore, Ms. Saima Shehzad, in pursuit of the directives of Director-General Customs Intelligence and Investigation Faiz Ahmad Chadher had received a credible information about huge quantity of smuggled glass ware dumped at a godown in the area of Saggian, Lahore.
After obtaining search warrant under Section 162 of the Customs Act, 1969, from a Judicial Magistrate, Lahore. A thorough search was carried out, which resulted in the recovery of an enoromous quantity of smuggled crockery/glass ware.
Anti-smuggling team led by Ch. Rizwan Bashir Kalair, Additional Director and supervised by li Asad, Deputy Director, further comprising Muhammad Anwar, Rai Muhammad Waqar, Superintendents, Aslam Iqbal, Sohail Murtaza, Fazal Mehmood, Nouman Ashraf, Ahtisham Naveed, Ali Arshad, Intelligence Officers and other staff conducted the intelligence based operation and shifted the impugned smuggled goods to the warehouse of I&I-Customs, Lahore.
The sources further divulged that in order to ensure safe transportation to the local market and to defraud the customs en-route checking mechanism, smugglers were re-packing the smuggled goods to make them look alike local products.
