KARACHI: The Directorate of Afghan Transit Trade (ATT) has made a couple of more arrests in the much publicised case of NATO/ISAF reverse cargo pilferage. The arrested persons are being termed as major links of the entire chain involved in this well-organised crime.
Those who were arrested by the Afghan Transit Trade investigation team include a bonded carrier, Sohail of M/s Bilal Associates, and a broker of vehicles, Tikka Khan.
Sources close to the investigation team claimed that the ATT team comprising Director General Khawar Fareed Manika, Director Wajid and Deputy Director Shoaib Raza has made remarkable progress and identified the locations where the pilfered goods are kept.
They have been kept at various warehouses, while the authorities have formed teams to raid these places, they further added.
Meanwhile, it is also learnt here that Transit Trade Director Wajid Ali has also received information that 14 containers filled with Red Bull energy drink were emptied in Pakistan. These goods were being transported to Afghanistan under the NATO cargo. An official said one container of the said energy drink avoids duty/taxes of Rs 8 million.
Moreover, one of the arrested person, Tikka Khan, has been accused of selling these energy drinks in Peshawar.
