ISLAMABAD: The Directorate General, Customs Intelligence and Investigation, Federal Board of Revenue, has showed tremendous and historic performance in the history of the directorate under the supervision and guidance of Director General Shaukat Ali during the current Financial Year (1st July 2016 to 30th June 2017). He carried out several anti-smuggling operations throughout Pakistan and impounded miscellaneous non-duty-paid goods including NDP smuggled vehicles, petrol, diesel, kerosene oil, cigarettes, electronics, smuggled foreign origin cloths, tyers and tubes, blankets, LCD TVs and many other items in 1647 cases, cost insurance and freight valued Rs7.934billion. According to a fair market value, total worth of the seized items is more than Rs14 billion. Last Financial Year (2015-16), the Directorate General had made seizures of worth Rs5.602billion and lodged 1492 cases.
This was stated by Deputy Director Headquarters, Directorate General Customs Intelligence and Investigation Islamabad, Khaldun-ul-Haq while giving an exclusive interview to Customs Today.
He stated the Directorate General has traced many money laundering cases amounting billions of rupees and four of them including M/s Marush International, M/s Sunder Trading Company, M/s MMYZ Lahore and Kontel Technologies are the major cases. He told CT that in the recent anti-smuggling operations Customs Intelligence has detected smuggling of kerosene oil of over 8,000 MT worth more than Rs2.14billion from Karachi Port during the last four years and three importers have been importing kerosene from M/s Ravago Landmark Private Ltd of South Korea and clearing it as white spirit on the strength of false description recorded on Bills of Ladings, Goods Declarations and laboratory test reports. He explained anti-smuggling performance and said that in July 2016 we confiscated smuggled items worth Rs286.72million in 114 cases and in August 2016 Directorate lodged 114 cases and seized miscellaneous goods valued Rs330.93million.
In September Directorate caught 80 cases and seized non-duty-paid goods valued Rs208.47million while in October 2016 Directorate impounded NDP goods of Rs248.04million in 85 cases. He further said in November 2016 Directorate seized smuggled goods worth Rs394.23million in 166 cases while last financial year in the same month directorate had confiscated smuggled goods valued Rs326.04million in 166 cases.
In December Directorate deized smuggled goods worth Rs678.69million in 137 cases while last financial year in the same month directorate had seized smuggled goods valued Rs555.39million in 138 cases. He said in January 2017 directorate seized smuggled items priced Rs561.13million in 143 cases as compared to last FY’s Rs397.87million in 98 cases.
In February 2017 directorate made seizures of worth Rs1132.68million in 180 cases as compared to same period in the last FY’s Rs748.99million in 134 cases. Likewise in March 2017 directorate confiscated goods of Rs748.98million in 186 cases as compared to last FY in the same month of Rs409.37 in 120 cases.
In April 2017 we impounded smuggled goods worth Rs1575.09million in 144 cases as compared to last FY’s in the same month of Rs382.50million in 126 cases while in May and June directorate seized smuggled goods CIF valued Rs766.78million and Rs1002.37million in 211 and 87 cases. He said it is a huge success of the directorate in anti-smuggling operations and it will further help to curb the menace of smuggling.
