ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) directorate general of intelligence and investigation (DG I&I) Irfan Javed has said the directorate’s performance had improved following a bid to stop smuggling liquor across Pakistan.
Talking to media, FBR DG I&I-Customs Director Irfan Javed said the directorate’s performance had enhanced to stop smuggling liquor across the country. He said the directorates did so with the help of Naval Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), police, and other law enforcement agencies personnel.
Liquor prices in the black market augmented over the past few months as the free accessibility of smuggled foreign liquor in Pakistan. However, the law enforcement agencies were made difficult following an onslaught against alcohol.
The Customs official noted that Liquor smuggling under name of foreign embassies had abridged appreciably after a big case was exposed. He explained that the embassies had distanced themselves from the imported consignment, following which the smuggled alcohol was sized.
He admired and said the directorate’s performance in the first two quarters of 2019-20 was fairly better than the past five years. An increase of 576 percent was witnessed in the cases registered during this time, as divergent to last year’s comparative period. In stipulations of monetary value, this increase was 166 percent bigger.
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