MULTAN: Collectorate of Customs Preventive Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has seized foreign origin ladies cloth of worth Rs1.6 millions in their action.
According to details, Assistant Collector Fahad Jamil received credible information from his source that a truck loaded with imported cloths will pass through Dera Ghazi Khan region. Assistant Collector Fahad Jamil constituted special squad to carry out action against them and directed Anti-Smuggling Squad to thwart any attempt of smuggling.
Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization took special measures for the recovery of Cloths and started patrolling on the different suspected routes of Multan by enhancing monitoring of the movement of goods to intercept goods.
Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization team intercepted the suspected truck near Sher Shah Bypass road and recovered huge quantity of Ladies fabric suiting cloths of printed colors and assorted designs. Customs teams found that recovered ladies suits of cloths were packed in different rolls and almost 45 rolls of cloths were recovered during their action.
Multan Customs staff asked the drivers of the trucks to produce legal documents of recovered Cloths but he failed to produce any import documents of the recovered tiles to justify their legal possession. Customs Anti-Smuggling squad seized cloths packed in different rolls during their action by framing seizure report under customs act 1969.The value of seized cloths was almost Rs1.6 million. Further investigation against seized cloths was still under process.
