QUETTA: The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation confiscated Iranian diesel worth Rs 8 million including oil tanker on Monday.
Sources told Customs Today that Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Muhammad Akram Chaudhary received a tip-off that some smugglers are trying to smuggle Iranian Diesel from Quetta to Karachi.
He immediately constituted a raiding team. Team In-Charge, Preventive, Wajid Raza and others enhanced the surveillance on the Quetta near highway and started searching vehicles During the search operation, the team intercepted an oil tanker bearing registration no: QDF-423 which was going from Quetta to Karachi.
During the checking, the customs team recovered 22,000 liters Iranian diesel worth Rs 8 million including oil tanker. The customs team seized all diesel and arrested two smugglers including driver, who were later identified truck driver Muzammil Khan and cleaner Wajid Javed.
Source told the Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta are going to register an FIR against the smugglers after careful investigations. The team also seized the oil tanker used in smuggling worth Rs. 2.6 million.
Source said if we talk about last month so Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta confiscated 258 thousand liter Irani diesel worth Rs 16 million including vehicles used in smuggling.
