KARACHI: Customs’ Appraisement East has lodged an FIR against a jewellery importer in a misdeclaration case.
The importer, Mohamad Ishaq of M/s Al-Saudia Enterprises, is accused of mis-declaring C&F value of the imported artificial jewellery through submitting fake and fabricated documents to evade government revenue. A copy of the bill of lading (BL), uploaded in the system, was forwarded to the concerned shipping agent i.e. M/s Mass Forwarding & Trading Company for confirmation of the BL and provision of export GD filed with Indian Customs at the port of Nhava Sheva, India.
It was confirmed that the C&F value of the goods is $158,699 as against $7,255 mis-declared by the importers in their GD and supported with a fake import invoice, evading Rs15.717 million. Mohamad Ishaq and General Manager of the clearing agent Syed Mubashir Ali has been instrumental in the scam who have been arrested.
Deputy Collector Mohammad Ali Malik Principal Appraiser R&D Dost Mohammad, Preventive Officer Malak Hashim and Adil Rasheed pursued the case and arrested the accused.