KARACHI: Port Qasim Customs has detected a Rs10.25 million misdeclaration scam by M/s Al-Aziz & Co.
M/s Al-Aziz filed goods declaration seeking clearance of a consignment comprising tyres with flaps of China. Imported uploaded a packing list of one particular container and the system selected that particular container for examination. The examination found the goods as per the packing list.
One container was marked for examination and it was as per the declaration, eight were going through green channel.
Collector Saeed Akram had the information that the importer was involved in methodical mis-declaration through jumbling of high value items into lesser quantity and low value items into higher quantity. Saeed Akram formed and R&D team headed by Additional Collector Yasin Murtaza comprising Deputy Collector Ehsan Shah, Principal Appraiser Shahid Rizvi and Appraising Officer Anwer Zeb. They conducted examination of all the containers that there was mis-declaration.