ISLAMABAD: Six sugars mills have submitted reply over show cause notice issued by Customs Collector Adjudication Islamabad in fake sugar export case.
Sources told Customs Today that the five sugar mills including Chaudhry Sugar Mills, Thal Industry Corporation, Bawany Sugr Mills, Hunza Sugar Mill, Ashraf Sugar Mills owned the sugar which Customs Intelligence and Investigation Peshawar had recovered from the go down, but the Sixth sugar Mill M/S JDW has took a different line of defence. He did not own his respective share of sugar (900 MT) recovered from go down.
Five sugar mills has took the plea including M/s Shayan International Custom clearing Agency, Torkham, M/s Ibrar Custom Agency, Torkham, Abdul Aziz Khan, Daud shah, Nawab Khan (PRAL) staff and Mujeeb-ur-Rehman made fake GDs and supplied copies of such GDs to the exporter in proof of the export of sugar to Afghanistan. So it is appropriate to punish them the real perpetrators of this export scam.
We had discharge our responsibilities under ECC decision to allow the export of 650,000 MT sugar to Afghanistan. We entered into sale contracts with the buyers in Afghanistan. Sugar Mills obtained from these buyers 15% advance payment to export them sugar.
They submitted the requisite documents to the state bank of Pakistan and obtained from the SBP allocation of sugar quota to be exported .After the SBP quota approvals, they obtained the remaining 85% payment from their buyers in Afghanistan. They gave delivery of the sugar to be exported to the brokers. These brokers were the persons who had intermediated between the exporters and importers and their transporters together with the requisite documents. Then they received from the brokers copies of GDs in proof of the export of sugar to Afghanistan. They finally verified on line from the PRAL record that sugar so delivered to the brokers and their transporters had been exported to Afghanistan.
