KARACHI: The Customs Court granted interim pre-arrest bail to suspect Santosh Kumar son of Parkash proprietor of M/s Rempex Trading, who was nominated in mega mis-declaration scam.
In 4 December 2020, during the hearing, the above mentioned suspect appeared before the court along with his counsel, who argued that his client is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case, who is ready to face trail, customs officials with malafide intention and ulterior motives wants to apprehend/ arrest the applicant/ accused and in case and if he is arrested, he would be disgraced humiliated, harassed and mentally tortured by the customs authorities to admit the crime which he never committed.
Counsel further argued that applicant is willing to join and co-operate in investigation to clarify his position and is ready to furnish solvent surety up to the satisfaction of this court, therefore, the court may grant his bail till final judgement in this case.
After the hearing, the court approved his interim pre-arrest bail and directed him to appear before the court for confirmation or otherwise.
Earlier, investigation officer of Customs Appraisement and Facilitation West submitted first information report (FIR) against the above mentioned importers and informed the court that M/s Electromed Corporation imported a consignment from USA and field WeBOC goods declaration amounting to US$ 12, 250 without mentioning part/serial number issued by M/s YAM Global FZE LLC, UAE in favour of importer.
He submitted that importer filed goods declaration though its clearing agent namely M/s Rempex Trading, however, during re-examined with the goods, in result, description, part numbers, origin mentioned in the found invoice matched with the imported goods, in is pointed out that the document filed with the collectorate indicates address of the importer and the found invoice also indicates the same address, hence, invoice furnished/ scanned with the goods declaration has been proved to be false and fabricated one, deliberately filed by importers causing under-invoicing of the goods by 1852.10%.
He argues that above mentioned importers in connivance with their customs agent have grossly mis-declared the goods for evading government’s legitimate revenue amounting of Rs14.2 million, therefore, first information report has been lodged against them and investigation is underway.
