KARACHI: PRAL, a private organisation meant to handle clearance data of Pakistan Customs, has refused to provide data to the Directorate General of Internal Audit-Customs, it is learnt.
Sources revealed that the administration has asked the authorities concerned of Internal Audit to contact with the Directorate of Reforms and Automation to get clearance data of import.
The sources termed the said attempt of PRAL a conspiracy, as the Internal Audit-Customs with the consent of FBR authorities, was working on very sensitive cases like gold smuggling scam and recovery of outstanding revenues from the telecommunication and other sectors.
“The refusal of PRAL in order to provide import/export data to Internal Audit-Customs will also affect on FBR revenue collection, as billions of rupees audit paras have been established and sent to the Collectorates across the country by the Internal Audit-Customs,” they added.
They said that the FBR top authorities should take immediate notice of non-attending and not providing the clearance data to Internal Audit-Customs.
The FBR has already paid heavy losses due to the negligence of PRAL administration in securing the data. It has been reportedly said that PRAL has lost some data linked with Afghan Transit Trade, which is certainly a matter of grave concern for the FBR and Pakistan Customs.
