Two separate raids were conducted by two teams from the Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation based on a tip-off. PHOTO: REUTERS
Sources privy to the matter informed The Express Tribune that two separate raids were conducted by two teams from the Customs Anti-Smuggling Organisation based on a tip-off.
One of the raids was conducted at a warehouse in Gemini Market in the Saddar area from where 25,000 to 30,000 smuggled Q-Mobile phones were taken into custody while during a raid on a three-story building – in the Baloch Colony area on Shahrah e Faisal – around 70,000 to 80,000 phones, from the same company, were recovered.
Smuggled mobile phones, tablets worth Rs284m seized
This is the second major anti-smuggling action by Customs Preventive ASO within three days. Sources said that this was the third time that the Preventive and Directorate Customs Intelligence ASO was taking action against Q-Mobile for smuggled mobile consignments that were not properly declared.
The sources added that the recovered phones have been sent to the government’s warehouse for inventory.
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