KARACHI: The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta foiled a smuggling bid of a large quantity of black and white plastic Dana worth Rs05million.
Sources told Customs Today that Director Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta Muhammad Akram Chaudhary received a tip-off that some smugglers are trying to smuggle plastic Dana from Quetta into Afghanistan.
He constituted a raiding team under the supervision of Superintendent Majid Butt, Aslam Khan and others. The team enhanced the surveillance on Quetta Highway and started search of vehicles.
The team intercepted a truck bearing a registration No: GK-7643 which was going from Quetta to Afghanistan. During the checking, the customs team recovered 250 sacks of black and white plastic Dana priced at Rs05million.
The customs team impounded all the bags and a truck used in the smuggling. Two smugglers including a driver, identified Shahid Shaikh and Mustaqeem, were apprehended. Sources said that, before the execution of the confiscation of plastic powder, the custom intelligence team had arrested eight smugglers who belonged to the very same gang of plastic Dana who used to smuggle the item into a neighboring country.
The Directorate of Customs Intelligence and Investigation Quetta lodged an FIR against the smugglers and started investigation.
