SIALKOT: The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Zone-III team has seized 14 cartons of imported soaps, shampoo and body spray worth Rs 175,000 on GT Road.
Sources said that ASO Assistant Collector Muhammad Hanif got information through Collector Customs Ahmad Reza Khan regarding the smuggling of imported soap, shampoo and spray through a bus. The ASO team established picket on a link road to Mandi Bahawaldin. While checking various vehicles, the team intercepted a passenger bus which was coming from Rawalpindi to Sialkot.
The officials while searching the bus recovered 14 cartons of soap, shampoo and body spray but no one claimed the ownership of the items on which the items were confiscated after considering them smuggled one.
The ASO team comprising Deputy Superintendent Muhammad Naeem Khan Inspector Mansha and others concerned officials participated in the raid. The team asked driver about documents of confiscated items but driver was failed to show any documents whereas the team register a case and case would be referred to Customs Adjudication for further proceeding and decision. However the team released driver after proper interrogations. The Anti Smuggling Organization (ASO) of Customs House Sialkot has speed up operations against smugglers.
