MULTAN: The Model Customs Collectorate has decided to launch a crackdown against car dealers involved in selling of smuggled cars.
Collector Sarfraz Ahmad Warraich has directed Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) to take stern action against car dealers, who cheat general public by selling them smuggled vehicles.
Officials said that the Multan Customs has received information that, smugglers with the help of some local car dealers, are looting innocent people by giving them smuggled vehicle, adding that after purchasing such vehicles, people have to face various problems, as all departments, including customs take measures under the law against smuggled vehicles.
The officials said that majority of the vehicle smugglers belong to Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, who supply the vehicles to showrooms’ owners earning millions of rupees. The smugglers are also involved in the preparation of bogus documents of the vehicles for their sale to general public without any inconvenience, they added.
The ASO officials observed during various actions that owner of every second impounded vehicle was innocent buyer, as he had purchased the vehicle having blind believe in the car dealer, they informed. The dealers satisfy the purchasers by showing fake documents regarding payment of duty/taxes on the import of vehicles.
The officials said that ASO will initiate crackdown against these car dealers on the basis of information collecting through investigation. After the action, the sale of smuggled vehicles would come to a halt, they hoped. Majority of the car dealers are working in the boundary of Dera Ghazi Khan which is usually used for smuggling of vehicles through the area of Sakhi Sarwar.
It is learnt that ASO will take action against car dealers with assistance of other law enforcement agencies in the jurisdiction.
