MULTAN: Collectorate of Customs Enforcement & Compliance (E&C) impounded non-customs paid vehicles and miscellaneous goods worth Rs225.32 million during various anti-smuggling operations during the month of June.
Sources told Customs Today that Customs Anti-Smuggling Organization has carried out operations against smuggled goods in the territory on the special directions of Collector Muneeza Majeed.
Customs Anti-Smuggling staff has foiled several attempts of smuggling on the basis of credible information against smuggling. Multan Customs has boosted the patrolling of the suspected routes to intercept the non-customs paid (NCP) vehicles.
Customs Anti-Smuggling Squad enhanced vigilance to restrain smuggling of non-duty paid vehicles in the region after credible information and carried out different actions against non-duty paid and tampered vehicles and seized six various luxury vehicles during July.
Anti-Smuggling Organization has impounded only six smuggled vehicles of worth Rs17.6 million in June. The Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) has seized various non-customs paid vehicles million including Toyota Axio, Royal Crown, Toyota Premio, Toyota Land Cruiser, Toyota Hilux Surf and others in their various crackdowns. All impounded vehicles were found non-duty paid and non-tampered during verification.
Anti-Smuggling Organization has detected various seizure cases of betel nuts, cloths, tyres, Cigarettes and others of almost worth Rs.207.72 million during their aggressive crackdown in the region during June 2019-20.
These impounded vehicles and goods were intercepted from Dera Ghazi Khan, Multan, Faisalabad, Jhang, Sargodha, Mianwali region during crackdown of Anti-Smuggling Organization in the month of April.