KARACHI: Collector Appraisement West Owais Agha Jawad has notified transfers and postings of around 20 Principal Appraisers while Collector Appraisement East is likely to re-shuffle Principal Appraisers and Appraisers in a couple of days.

The Principal Appraisers moved in Appraisement West include Azeem khan to R&D, Qalander bux to group 1,   Muzaffar Rizvi to group 2,  Javaid Hasan to group 3,  Asad Masood to group 4,  Raffi ullah to group 5,   Masood Ul Hasan to group 6, Abdul Qaum to group 7,  Sahib e Ikram to group 7,   Saleh Kalhoro to Bank guarantee,  Saleem Yousuf to Bond Section,  Ali Ahmed Talpur  and Ahmed Nawaz to Auction,  Najm Ul Hasan Jamali to FTA & PTA section,  Javaid Ehsan to Audit section,  Shaheen Farooq to Recovery section and  Abdullah Domki to Law,  FTO.

Sources said that certain senior officers had assigned additional charge of assessment and examination to Principal Appraisers and Appraisers of intelligence sections, which resulted in gross corruption causing much harm to national revenues.

Sources said that all PAs and Appraisers of Appraisement Intelligence Branch (AIB), Research & Development (R&D), Customs Intelligence Unit (CIU), Intelligence & Prosecution (I&P) will not perform assessment and examination at all.