KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday directed Pakistan Customs’ additional collector licensing to decide on November 27 the case of clearing agents – Great Easter & Co and Maha Taufiq Impex, whose licenses have been blocked after registration of a case against them for evasion of Rs 3.6 million in duty and taxes.
A division bench of SHC gave these directions while hearing the petitions filed by clearing agent Great Easter & Co and Maha Taufiq Impex, seeking to unblock their NTNs and Web Based One Customs (WeBOC) User IDs.
The petitioners’ counsel submitted that according to the FIR, the importers of EPZ with help of various investors and customs clearing agents, including the petitioners, imported and got cleared goods by fraudulently reducing assessed duty and taxes at the time of issuance of cash number and then deposited less amount of duty and taxes to the tune Rs 3.69 million.
Subsequently, the petitioners’ counsel said, the case was lodged against his clients and others. He told the judges that after registration of the case, his clients’ NTNs and user IDs were blocked without following legal procedure. Therefore, the petitioner pleaded with the court to issue directives for the respondents to unblock their NTNs and user IDs.
To a query, the counsel told the court that the case pertaining to blocking of the petitioners’ licenses was fixed for hearing on November 27 and requested that the additional collector licensing be directed to decide the matter swiftly.
