SIALKOT: The Anti-Smuggling Organisation (ASO) team visited various car showrooms to check the documents regarding import and customs clearance of vehicles.
ASO incharge Assistant Collector Fahad Bashir Chaudhary along with his team members, including Superintendent Sardar Manzoor, Inspectors Aamir, Arshad, Amjad, Asad and others conducted the operation to detect car dealers involved in selling of smuggled vehicles.
The team raided the showrooms situated in Gujranwala, Sialkot, Wazirabad, Gujrat and Narowal and checked chassis numbers and engine numbers of all available vehicles, while the officials did not found anyone so far involved in such kind of illegal activity.
During the raids, the customs team warned owners of all showrooms of stern action if they would find involved in selling of non-duty paid vehicles, adding that miscreant will have to bear full weight of law. Officials said that the ASO teams will visited the car dealers time to time to check the documents and chassis and engine numbers of the vehicles.
The officials added that the ASO team will start a campaign against non-duty paid vehicles in the rural areas soon because it has been learnt that many smuggled vehicles are being used in rural areas. The ASO has made a plan to set up check posts at main point of rural areas to impound the said vehicles.
It may be mentioned here that the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has strictly ordered the customs department to conducted raids on showrooms of new vehicles in order to impound the smuggled vehicles.
