Federal Board of Revenue confiscates smuggled goods worth Rs 754 million
ISLAMABAD: The customs intelligence wing of the Federal Board of Revenue confiscated smuggled goods worth Rs754 million.
The smuggled goods include cigarettes, gutka, dry fruits, cigarettes, Indian-origin gutka, and shisha flavor.
According to the FBR, the customs teams raided different areas in the province of Baluchistan, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, and Karachi and seized smuggled goods.
The Chairman of the FBR Asim Ahmad visited the customs intelligence headquarters in Islamabad and congratulated FBR’s teams for their good performance.
According to a press statement of the FBR, in pursuance of the directions of the Prime Minister of Pakistan, the FBR paced up crackdown against the smuggling of essential items.
The raiding teams of the FBR got credible information from the Director General Customs Intelligence Faiz Ahmad Chadhar with the Directorate of Customs Intelligence. According to information, a huge quantity of Pak Origin Fertilizer Urea and Sugar were stored at different godowns in and around Khuzdar City, for onwards smuggling from Baluchistan to Afghanistan.
The Director of custom intelligence, Gwadar, therefore, constituted a team to execute the operation for seizure of the essential items from various dumping sites of District Khuzdar, starting on 4 April 2023.
Customs intelligence, Gwadar, seized an aggregate 41,883 bags of Urea fertilizer worth Rs167.53m and 44,957 bags of Sugar worth Rs224.78m.
These operations during the last weekend have successfully foiled an attempt to smuggle to Afghanistan huge quantities of 86,840 bags of essential commodities with a cumulative worth Rs392.31m which is a severe blow to the smuggling mafia.
Furthermore, customs Intelligence, Rawalpindi, seized high-value items like smuggled Almonds, Cashew Nuts, Walnuts, Cigarettes, Tea etc. valuing Rs30m.
Moreover, customs intelligence Karachi, recovered 2.2m sticks of smuggled cigarettes and 0.3m pouches of Indian-origin gutka and shisha flavor. The total value of the seized goods is Rs61.3m.
It is pertinent to highlight that the godowns from where the abovementioned smuggled goods have been recovered in Karachi and Rawalpindi are located in densely populated areas of Karachi.
The Directorate General Customs Intelligence shows strong resolve to deal with the smugglers with iron hands. The visit of the Chairman is also a strong message to the smugglers that smuggling will not be tolerated in any area of the country.
