KARACHI: MCC Appraisement West has submitted Interim Challan against the accused involved in M/s Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases (MIKD) scam, and sought more time from the Court to continue investigating this high profile crime.
MCC Appraisement West has established that Asad Iqbal of M/s Urooj Fatima Enterprise, and several others including Dr. Shakeel Ahmed of M/s. Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases (MIKD), Multan; Irfan Aziz Khan Niazi Proprietor of M/s Aair Medicals; Ali Hassan of M/s Strongman Medifur Systems Pvt. Limited; Nadeem and Taha Nadeem of M/s Taha Surgical; Muhammad Khaliq of M/s. Dawn Sports; and one Masood Lodhi are involved in importing and clearing miscellaneous high value goods under the garb of donated medical equipment by misusing the ID of MIKD, causing government revenue loss to the billions of rupees.
The present case is multifaceted in nature and require further extensive probe for detailed scrutiny of record pertaining to 38 Consignments cleared from Collectorate of Customs Appraisement (West) imported in the past in the name of M/s. MIKD Multan for the determination of revenue loss thereto and also accused Asad Iqbal has categorically disclosed the names of the individuals who used to have Cargo in Shipments cleared by using M/S MIKD User ID and along with the Marks and numbers of the cartons.
Moreover, efforts are being made to examine the individuals and business entities whose name are disclosed by accused Asad Iqbal Sheikh so that their involvement in the commission of offence could be ascertained in crystallized manners. Asad Iqbal Shaikh has been given in jail custody.
The case was originally detected by MCC Appraisement West. A credible information was passed through Collector Appraisment West Tahir Qureshi to Additional Collector Yasir Kalwar and Deputy Collector Raza Naqvi that M/s Multan Institute of Kidney Diseases (MIKD) with active connivance of their authorized Clearing Agent Mass Traders are indulged in importing and getting cleared the items on suppressed value, which are not related to the declared objective of the Institute, in commercial quantity while availing exemption of duties and taxes under Special Classification Provision.
Deputy Colector Raza Naqvi formed a team comprising Principal Appraiser Ghulam Yaseen, AOs Taha Sher Behan, Muhammad Riaz and Rashid Ali to pursue the case and the wrongdoings were detected. They have inflicted heavy losses to the legitimate government revenue by availing the exemption which otherwise was not due.
It was further reported that few unscrupulous elements are selling the said items in the local market instead of bringing the same for in-house usage of the Multan Institute of Kidney Disease as per requirement of the exempting law.
Tahir Qureshi sent a team comprising Taha Sher, Abid Sarfaraz, Abdul Ghaffar Dogar to Multan and arrested Asad Shaikh.
MIKD cleared 38 GDs at MCC Appraisement West on the basis of forged documents to claim exemptions, while 31 GDs were processed at Appraisement East of which 29 were on forged/fake documents. Certain consignments were also cleared through AFU Karachi and AFU Lahore. Green Channel.