KARACHI: Despite of the fact that Customs Adjudication has served orders-in-original penalizing toy importers M/s One Ten World and M/s Xing Enterprises, these toy importers have managed to get delay and detention certificates from Customs department.
In a letter to Collector Appraisement East, M/s One Ten World and M/s Xing Enterprises notes that Customs Department had issued them delay and detention certificates for waiver of demurrage and detention, but PICT has yet not granted them 100 percent waiver.
These toy importers asked the Collector Appraisement East to take action against PICT including imposition of penalty and cancellation of their license.
Collector Appraisement East has taken strict notice of the threatening tone of M/s One Ten World and M/s Xing Enterprises and advised R&D to investigate that how delay and detention certificates were issued to them despite the fact they had been convicted of fraud and imposed with penalties.
These toy importers also threatened the Collector Appraisement East that if action was not taken against PICT, they would take legal action against PICT as well as Customs Appraisement East.
It may be mentioned here that Additional Collector Adjudication Dr. Sadia Sadaf had penalized this cartel of toy importers for concealing the actual description of the goods to take an attempt for getting the goods assessed on suppressed values for evading government’s legitimate revenue.
As many as four order-in-original (ONOs) have been served on M/s Xing Enterprises and cumulative fine/penalty of Rs5.04 million has been imposed on M/s Zing Enterprises. Similarly, three ONOs have been served on M/s One Ten World and a cumulative fine/penalty of Rs3.79 million is imposed on M/s One Ten World.
The importers mis-declared the description to avoid higher value of Valuation Ruling and attracting regulatory duty. The importers, thus, tried to evade the legitimate customs duty and regulatory duty in addition to higher rate of Valuation Ruling by mis-declaring the description of incomplete toys as spares for plastic toys.
Sources said these importers represented by one Imran Molvi have been involved in blackmailing and pressurizing the officers/officials through the use of a weekly magazine and a third-rated news channel. They attempted to blackmail and character assassination of Additional Collector Yaseen Murtaza and Principal Appraisers Dost Mohammad, Noor Akbar Mahar, Khalid Umar and others. However, the customs did not succumb to these tactics. It was also known that Molvi had secured several fake IDs, which are used for this purpose.