
Customs recovers huge quantity of smuggled cigarettes
Directorate of Customs Intelligence has recovered huge quantity of smuggled cigarettes and other banned tobacco items worth Rs66 million in a raid on busy wholesale market in Karachi.
A senior official at Directorate of Customs Intelligence, Karachi said on Friday that with the assistance of Pakistan Rangers Sindh, the staff of customs intelligence had recovered huge quantity of foreign smuggled cigarettes, India Gutka and flavored Sheesha during a joint operation at the Bolton Market. It was a second big recovery of smuggled cigarettes and other banned tobacco items in last 18 days as the directorate made similar recovery of Rs68 million in a raid on the same wholesale market.
The directorate acted on information that foreign smuggled cigarettes and Gutka in a huge quantity had been illegally stored in different godowns located in Bolton Market. A team of Customs Intelligence officials, including Haji Muhammad Aslam, Akmal Hashmi and Qasim Alvi etc. was constituted under the supervision of Deputy Director Dr Ahsan Khan by Director Muhammad Asif Marghoob Siddiqui in consultation with Additional Director Nadeem Ahsan.
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