LAHORE: Model Customs Collectorate Multan has offered mobile phone companies to buy mobile phones which the customs authorities had seized in a raid three months ago.
Collector Customs Multan Sarfraz Ahmad Warraich, when contacted, confirmed the customs offer to mobile phone companies stating that customs had seized mobile phones worth Rs 15 million from the local airport. The owner of the mobile phones, however, had escaped and are still at large.
Sarfraz said that after completing prescribed procedure as per law, Customs Multan has offered that mobile phone companies can purchase these mobile phones.
In case no company comes forward, then these mobile phones would be provided to Utility Stores Corporation (USC) after adopting proper procedure, customs collector said.
