FAISALABAD: The Field Investigation Unit (FIU) Sargodha of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation impounded a Non-Duty-Paid Hino truck with registration No: KWS-15-506, Model 1997, worth Rs8million involving customs duty and taxes of Rs2.7million.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Director Rana Irfan Shouqat received a tip-off about the Non-Duty-Paid vehicles plying on roads. He constituted a team comprising of Muhammad Tahir Iqbal, Superintendent, Mansoor Nasir, Saad Iqbal, Intelligence Officers (IO) and Muhammad Ashraf and Asad Iqbal, Sepoys.
The FIU team intercepted the said truck near Chowk Jhal Chakian Sargodha and asked the possessors of the vehicle, identified as Zeshan Ali son of Riaz-ul-Haq and other unidentified persons, to produce the legal documents regarding the possession of the vehicle but they failed to do so.
So the FIU Sargodha team took the truck into possession and forwarded the case to the customs adjudication for legal proceeding.