KARACHI: Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta has recovered 500 non-customs paid smart mobile phones during a successful operation. In another crackdown, the Custom team seized a huge quantity of electronic goods.
Sources told Customs Today that the Customs Intelligence director received secret information about some smuggling attempts. He summoned deputy director Customs Intelligence and directed him to set up check posts at main entry and exit points of Quetta city. A team comprising Inspector Shafiq Khan Tanoli and Inspector Ghulam Rasool started checking vehicles.
The customs team intercepted 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 electronic 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.
