HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation has seized 30,000 liters smuggled Iranian diesel worth Rs 9 million.
Sources told Customs Today that Collector Ghulam Mujtaba Memon received information regarding smuggling of Iranian oil from Quetta to Punjab. Soon after receiving the information, he instructed collector Omer Shafique to form a special raiding team comprising inspector Khair Muhammad Pathan and other staff. They intercepted truck near Loni police station at superhighway and recovered smuggled Iranian diesel which was loaded on a vehicle with fake number plate . The smuggled diesel was being transported from Quetta to Punjab.
The customs raiding party asked driver of the vehicle to produce legal documents regarding possession of the diesel but he failed to produce the same. Upon his failure customs team seized the Iranian diesel and vehicle and registered a case against its owner