SARGODHA: The Field Investigation Unit (FIU) Sargodha of the Customs Intelligence and Investigation has impounded a non-duty-paid Nissan dumper truck with the tampered registration No: LES-16-251, Model 1996, priced at Rs8millon involving customs duty and taxes of Rs2.6million.
Sources told Customs Today that Deputy Director Rana Irfan Shouqat received a tip-off that some non-customs-paid vehicles are plying on the roads. He constituted a team comprising Superintendent Muhammad Tahir, Intelligence Officers Mansoor Nasir, Saad Iqbal, Sepoys Ashraf Qureshi, Khalil Ahmed and Asad Iqbal.
The FIU team intercepted a Hino truck near Dharema tehsil of district Sargodha and asked the trucker, identified as Shahid Iqbal son of Khan, to produce the legal documents regarding the possession of the truck but he failed to provide anything legal.
So the FIU team took into possession the truck and forwarded the case to the Custom Adjudication for legal proceeding.