QUETTA: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigations expedited its efforts to check smuggling. The collectorate seized smuggling items worth Rs1.7million in the first week of August, which included computer accessories, Iranian diesel, break oil, plastic powder, large quantity of hashish and other different items.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Collector Customs Preventive Junaid Mehmood received a tip-off that some smugglers are trying to smuggle Non-Duty-Paid commercial generators and commercial molding machines from Quetta into Afghanistan.
He immediately constituted a raiding team. The team enhanced the vigilance in the area of Mastung and started a searching operation of some godowns in Kaghazi Bazaar area in Mastung.
After a while, the team found five heavy non-duty-paid commercial generators and three commercial molding machines in a godown. The officers demanded that documents of machines be shown but godown owner M Iqbal failed to do so.
So the team confiscated all the said generators and molding machines and arrested the godown owner. The market value of the seized items is Rs4.5million. Sources said Deputy Collector Customs Preventive Junaid Mehmood is holding consultation meetings on daily basis with officers and giving guidelines to them to arrest the illegal business of smuggling. Sources said it was a 3rd raid in the month of September.
