KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta authorities during a successful operation recovered 500 non-customs paid smart mobile phones. While during another crackdown custom team seized huge quantity of electronics goods.
Sources told Customs Today, that director Customs Intelligence received secret information about some smuggling attempts. He immediately summoned deputy director Customs Intelligence and directed him to form different check posts at main entry and exit point of Quetta City. The team comprising Inspetor Shafiq Khan Tanoli and Inspector Ghulam Rasool started checkng of vehicles.
The customs team interceted a Mazda vehicle but the driver of the vehicle tried to run away. Customs team chased the vehicle and stop it near Khosa check post. During checking of vehicle customs team recovered 500 smuggled smart phones. Customs team asked the driver of the vehicle who was identified as Ishaq Khan to produce legal documents regarding possession of these cell phones but the driver of the vehicle failed to provide any relevant documents. After his failure customs team seized the mobile and registered a case of smuggling against the driver of the vehicle Ishaq Khan.
During another crackdown customs team seized huge quantity of electroics goods from a passenger bus. Sources said that customs team during a routine road checking intercepted a passenger bus and recovered 50 LEDs, 100 computer laptops, 30 hardware disks, LEDs monitors. Customs team also asked the driver of the vehicle to show legal documents regarding possession of these goods but the driver failed to show any documents.
Customs team seized the entire electronics goods. Customs authorities also arrested both driver and conductor of the passenger bus after registering a case of smuggling against them. During intitial interrogations both accused persons told the investigators that they were only going to deliver these goods to another party in Karachi.
