MULTAN: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation has confiscated light diesel oil and grease in an operation here.
Following the directions of Additional Director Nisar Ahmad, Customs Intelligence teams raided a private warehouse where light diesel oil was being manufactured by mixing with smuggled grease.
Additonal Director formed special team comprising of superintendent Fareed ud Din Masood , senior intelligence officer Muhammad Umer, Hafiz Muhammad Younas , sepoy Zulfiqar and others for raiding the godown located near tehsil Jahaniya Vehari road.
When Customs team raid the warehouse, the light diesel oil was being manufactured and the Customs team caught the suspects red-handed.
It is pertinent to mention here that light diesel oil falls under class C category fuel having flash point above 66OC and it is a blend of distillate components and a small amount of residual components.
More than 10 labourers were present at the time of Customs raid in the godown and busy in the processing of light diesel oil. After customs teams took the 350 drums of smuggled grease and 34,000 litres light diesel oil in their custody. Labourers were working at the warehouse were interrogated by Customs teams and they were released after initial investigation.
During initial investigation of the Customs warehouse was owner by Tahir Rauf and other. According to Additional Director Nisar Ahmad they were manufacturing light diesel oil with help of smuggled grease and sale to the petrol fake invoices of the Mehmood Kot. Customs teams have taken the all records into their custody including ledger, receipts and computer in order to calculate their whole sale record.
The total worth of the seized light diesel oil and grease is almost Rs 8 million. The customs teams were still busy in lifting seized goods.
