FAISALABAD: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Mianwali has impounded a non-customs-paid used Hino six-wheeler cylinder machine. The market value of the machine is Rs4.2million involving customs duty and taxes of Rs2.2million.
Sources told Customs Today that Assistant Collector ASO Mianwali Shah Samad Hamadani received secret information regarding the smuggling of the machine. Assistant Collector constituted a raiding team comprising Superintendent Chaudhary Muhammad Sardar, Azhar Hussain Jafri, Amir Mumtaz Bajwa (inspectors), Muhammad Ashraf, Havaldar and Muhammad Amin, Muhammad Abdullah, Riaz Ahmed, Muhammad Feroz and Muhammad Anwar (Sepoys).
The ASO staff intercepted the said machine bearing registration No: TLB-322 Lesbella near toll plaza of M.M Road, district Mianwali.
The ASO team asked its owner Haji Muhammad son of Gul Muhammad to prove the legal status of the machine but he failed to do so. The ASO team took into possession the Hino machine and registered a case against the owner of the six-wheeler machine.
