KARACHI: The authorities concerned of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) are reluctant to make public the most important report in connection with gold smuggling case, it is learnt.
Sources disclosed that the report regarding the mega gold scam has been prepared by the department concerned of the Pakistan Customs, but it has yet to be made public as some influential persons are behind the scam and their names are also included in the report.
The sources on condition of anonymity informed Customs Today that the names of around 18 gold smugglers are included in the report which was prepared by the competent authorities of Pakistan Customs with through study.
Responding to a query, the sources confirmed that the gold smuggling report has been prepared and would be published in a week or so.
It is pertinent to mention here that the gold smuggling case was surfaced last year in which it was unveiled that the exporters by using hundreds of fake Form-E were involved in exporting billions of worth gold to other countries through Air Freight Unit (AFU) and Port Muhammad Bin Qasim (Exports).
It may also be mentioned here that the Customs departments including Directorate General of Internal Audit and Port Muhammad Bin Qasim (Exports) while following the directives of FBR high-ups have started marathon investigation and in the light of threadbare investigation, the Customs authorities later, registered FIRs against some of the gold smugglers including Sani Impex, Makkah Enterprises and others, but nothing effective has yet to be done afterwards.
The sources further confirmed that some high-profile names are also included in the report on gold smuggling.
