KARACHI: Customs Court Judge Syed Faiz Rasool Rashdi remanded accused Abrar Ahmed S/o Manzoor Ahmed and Muhammad Nasir Shoaib S/o Shoaib Ahmed Khan to customs department’s lockup on physical remand till May 17, 2017 who were allegedly involved in the removal of pay-orders worth millions of rupees from the securities section of the collectorate.
During the hearing, investigation officer produced abovementioned accused before the court and submitted that these arrests were made on the basis of major development regarding the ongoing investigation against misuse of pay-orders and illegal transfer of huge amounts to other’s bank accounts.
He informed the court that the MCC Appraisement, East, Customs House, Karachi, has already lodged three First Information Reports against several accused including two employees of the National Bank of Pakistan for illegally removing and misusing deposited pay-orders.
In a recent development, the MCC Appraisement, East, has held two persons involved in the removal of pay-orders from the securities section of customs. He further submitted that the MCC Appraisement, East, has already apprehended Muhammad Rafiq, I/c WeBOC Collection Counter, Grade-II situated at NBP, Customs House Branch Karachi and another accused named Yousuf who is a Grade-III employee of the same bank.
According to him, the MCC Appraisement, East, believes that all these accused were allegedly involved in illegal removal of pay-orders from securities section of the collectorate and subsequently deposit of the same against the GD of some unauthorized person illegally.
After his arguments, the court sent them back to the customs department’s lockup and directed the investigation officer to produce them on the next date of hearing along with a progress report.
A case was registered for committing a fiscal fraud as defined under Sections 32A of the Customs Act-1969 punishable under clause 14A of Section 156(1) of the Customs Act-1969.
