KARACHI: The Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited (PRAL) has decided to provide post clearance data to the Directorate General of Internal Audit (Customs), it has been learnt here.
Sources told Customs Today that Director General of the Directorate General-Internal Audit-Customs Dr Owais Agha Jawwad, after meeting with the Director Imtiaz Ahmed last week, wrote a letter to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to get the post clearance data to prepare audit paras.
Acting upon the letter, the high-ups of the FBR had asked PRAL Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Arshad Hussain to provide all necessary import data to the Directorate General of Internal Audit-Customs that would help the department officials in discharging their duties.
Following the said development, a meeting between the CEO-PRAL Arshad Hussain and DG of the Directorate General of Internal Audit-Customs was held recently in which it was decided that the Pakistan Revenue Automation Limited will provide assistance to Internal Audit-Customs department in connection with providing the post clearance import data.
It may be mentioned here that the Directorate General of Internal Audit-Customs faced difficulties in getting the post clearance data from PRAL, which had also hampered its working in connection with making the audit paras in different post imported consignments.
Internal Audit-Customs Director General Dr Owais Agha Jawwad expressed his satisfaction over the sharing of post clearance data by PRAL and hoped that the said practice would prove helpful in detecting lost revenue in the past imported consignments.
