MULTAN: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation seized huge quantity of foreign origin ceramics tiles worth Rs4 millions in their action.
According to details, Deputy Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Khial Muhammad Khan received credible information from his source that a truck loaded with imported ceramic tiles will transport through Dera Ghazi Khan Region. Deputy Director Customs Intelligence constituted special squad to carry out action against them and Inspector Umer, Inspector Haq Nawaz, Muhammad Zulfiqar and others took part in the operation.
Following the instructions of deputy director Customs Intelligence team took special measures for the recovery of ceramic tiles and took effective measure to curb smuggling in the region and started patrolling in Multan Road by tightening monitoring of the movement of goods to intercept smuggled goods.
Customs Intelligence team intercepted the suspected truck bearing registration number QK-721 and recovered huge quantity of ceramic tiles. Customs teams found that recovered ceramic tiles was Iranian origin.
Customs Intelligence asked the drivers of the trucks to produce legal documents of recovered ceramic tiles but they failed to produce any import documents of the recovered tiles to justify their legal possession.
Customs Intelligence teams seized almost 1200 square feet ceramic tiles during their action by framing seizure report under Customs Act 1969.The value of seized ceramic tiles was almost Rs4 million. Further investigations are still under process.
