FAISALABAD: The Customs Collectorate Anti-Smuggling Organization (ASO) Faisalabad has impounded a smuggled F/O Toyota Corolla car worth Rs1.8million involving custom duty and taxes of Rs750000.
Sources told Customs Today that the ASO team, on a tip-off, intercepted a Toyota Corolla car with registration No: FSA-1855 modelled 2003 near Kohinoor city, Jaranwala Road, Faisalabad.
The ASO asked the owner of the vehicle named Iftikhar Ahmed, a resident of Faisalabad, to produce the legal documents regarding the possession of the vehicle but he failed to do so.
The ASO team impounded the vehicle under Section 2(s) read with SRO 566 (1), 2005 section 16, 18, 157, 168, and 178 of the Customs Act-1969 and Section 3 of the Sales Tax Act-1990, Section 148 of Income Tax Ordinance 2001 and forwarded the case to Customs Adjudication for further proceedings.
The team, comprising Superintendent Dilawar Hussain, Inspector Khalid Ashraf Noor, Tanveer-ul-Haq and Sepoys Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Naeem, Muhammad Yaseen, Liaqat Ali and others, took part in the seizure operation.