ISLAMABAD: A Special Car Cell, Directorate General Customs Intelligence and Investigation, Federal Board of Revenue Islamabad, impounded a non-duty-paid Toyota Mark II car worth Rs02.3 million.
The cell received a tip-off that a smuggled car is being driven in the area of Sector G-11, Islamabad. The special car cell intercepted the car modelled 2000 with a registration plate No. BCX-432 Sindh and impounded it from Muhammad Idrees S/o Muhammad Khurshid, a resident of Nust University, Abdul Garden-H-13/4, Islamabad.
On demand, the possessor of the vehicle failed to produce any import and auction documents except a registration book. As per import and auction data available with the directorate general, no import and auction record existed. Then the car was impounded under the Section of the 17 Customs Act-1969 for further verification of its import status and payment of duty and taxes and forensic test.