The Central Board of RevenueÂ’s (CBR) intelligence department seized 48 containers of goods, imported for October 8, 2005 earthquake survivors, from a factory in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate here on Sunday. The CBRÂ’s Directorate General of Intelligence and Investigation seized from a bicycle-making factory tents, split air conditioners, preserved food, generators, geysers, exhaust fans, cooking ranges, crockery, toiletries, furniture, washing machines, heaters and portable tables which had been imported from Canada and other countries and were being sold in Bara Market, official Qurban Ali Khan told reporters during a briefing at his office in Hayatabad.
He said that his department had received a tip that imported goods were being sold in a Peshawar market and that a factory in the Hayatabad Industrial Estate area was supplying these goods. He said that his department watched the factory for a week and then raided it on May 17 to seize the goods.
Khan said it was not clear if the goods were stolen or left after use by marines who came to Pakistan for rescue and rehabilitation work after the earthquake. However, he said that the department was investigating how these goods were brought to Peshawar. He said that five people were being interrogated in this regard. He said that owner of the factory from where these goods were seized was abroad and the factory was abandoned. |