KARACHI: The Customs Court issued notices to the customs authorities, special prosecutor for customs and investigation officer on pre-arrest bail application filed by Santosh Kumar son of Parkash, proprietor of Rempex Trading, who was nominated in mega mis-declaration scam.
On 3 November2020, above mentioned suspect appeared before the court along with his counsel who argued that the customs authorities with malafide intention and ulterior motives wants to apprehend/ arrest the applicant/ accused and in the case 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 cooperate in investigation to clarify his position and is ready to furnish solvent surety up to the satisfaction of this court.
Earlier, investigation officer of Customs Collectorate 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, it 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.
He argued that the above mentioned importers in connivance with their customs agent have grossly mis-declared the goods for evading government’s legitimate revenue amounting Rs14.2 million, therefore, first information report has been lodged against them and investigation is underway.
After the hearing, the court took FIR into court record and directed the investigation officer to complete the investigation and submit progress report against them on the next date of hearing.
