HYDERABAD: The Directorate of Intelligence & Investigation, Customs ASO Hyderabad, has impounded a non-duty-paid vehicle Toyota Hilux Surf worth Rs1.2million involving duties and taxes of Rs2.4million during a raid on Sadder Cantt Hyderabad.
Sources told Customs Today that I&I Hyderabad, on strict instructions of Directorate General Customs Intelligence & Investigation Director Shuakat Ali and I&I Hyderabad Region Director, took effective measures to curb the smuggling in the region.
Customs Intelligence Director received secret information regarding a non-duty-paid vehicle on which he formed a team under the supervision of Syed Irshad Ali Shah, Principle Appraiser, comprising of seizing Intelligence Officer Syed Shafiq Ali, Sepoys and a driver to conduct raid on the vehicle.
The team intercepted a Toyota Hilux near Sadder Cantt Hyderabad and asked the owner of the vehicle to produce documents regarding the legal import and possession of vehicle, but he failed to do so. So the officials impounded the vehicle and registered a case against him.
A team, comprising abovementioned officials following direction, intercepted a vehicle. The officials, taking legal action, impounded the vehicle under customs bylaws considering it smuggled and registered a case against the suspect.
In the month of February 2018, the same team forwarded a tip-off to Customs Intelligence Director General Shaukat Ali that a huge quantity of contraband diesel filled in a tanker would be smuggled into the country via Karachi Matli. A team of officers of the directorate was constituted to foil this attempt of smuggling.
The team intercepted an oil tanker No: TUC-609 near Matli and recovered 24,000 liters of Iranian diesel. The HSD was being transported from Hub Karachi to interior Sindh, Matli.
The vehicle was spotted and the persons in the vehicle could not produce any document regarding the legal import of loaded diesel on the spot. Therefore the vehicle along with the filled HSD was taken into possession by the staff and escorted to the office of Directorate of Intelligence & Investigation Hyderabad.
After his failure, I&I team seized the non-duty-paid HSD diesel and registered a case of smuggling against the accused. An FIR has been registered against the accused.
I&I Hyderabad team deposited the impounded diesel with oil tanker into the customs warehouse and forwarded the case to the customs adjudication for further proceeding.
