KARACHI: Collectorate of Customs (Adjudication – I) has issued show cause notices in seizure of contrabands made by directorate general of intelligence and investigation of Federal Board of Revenue and fixed hearing in the case for September 04, 2014.
According the facts of the case, the DG intelligence and investigation received information that Haji Sadi, Zeshan and Qasim are involved in the storage / dumping and subsequent sale of smuggled cigarettes and other contraband goods and the goods had been secretly dumped at Marriot Road, Karachi.
The intelligence staff after obtaining search warrant from area judicial magistrate carried out search along with the help of Pakistan Rangers, which resulted in recovery of foreign origin cigarette, gutka and Naswar. The market value of the seized goods is about Rs64.4 million, on which the quantum of duty and taxes come at Rs110 million.