FAISALABAD: The Field Investigation Unit (FIU), Sara-e-Muhajir Customs Intelligence, has impounded a Hino truck worth Rs4million involving duties and taxes amounting to Rs4.7million during an action.
Superintendent Muhammad Tahir received a tip-off regarding the Non-Duty-Paid vehicle. He constituted a raiding team, comprising Intelligence Officers Muhammad Saleem and Mansoor Nasir and Sepoys Mukhtar Ahmed, Fakhar Abbas, Muhammad Shehbaz and Usman Iqbal, to take into possession the Non-Duty-Paid vehicle.
The intelligence team intercepted a Hino truck near Tehsil Chowk, district Jhang, and asked the owner named Salah-ud-Din son of Amir Muhammad, a resident of district Ziarat, for showing the documents regarding the customs clearance of the vehicle but he failed to do so.
The FIU impounded the vehicle under Section-2KK of the Customs Act-1969 and sent the case to the adjudication for further legal action.