LAHORE: The Special Federal Court of Customs Taxation and Anti-Smuggling has approved a 14-day judicial remand of the accused apprehended in mobiles smuggling case.
According to details, accused Abdul Waheed and Agha Wali were arrested by the customs intelligence authorities from The Mall. The customs intelligence and investigation team presented them before the customs court for getting their physical remand to investigate more on the issue.
Both accused were supplying these mobile phones to some traders of the Hall Road which is a largest mobile phones market of Punjab. The customs intelligence team intercepted them on The Mall and recovered a huge quantity of mobile phones of different brands.
The customs intelligence has recovered 324 mobile phones of which value is more than Rs6million in the local market. By smuggling these cell phones, the accused caused the national kitty a loss in the forms of duties and taxes.