ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has directed the Director General Post Clearance Audit (PCA) to conduct an audit of GB customs Collectorate for the last three years.
Sources said that the audit could bring out the method and magnitude of massive revenue losses caused in the GB customs allegedly by a principal appraiser Raja Waseem Ahmad under the alleged patronage of DG custom intelligence, Islamabad.
The GB customs scam remained in news during the past weeks after the former collector GB customs collectorate Nisar Ahmad who served there for about three months had pointed at a cartel of senior custom officers allegedly involved in corrupt practice of money making through clearing high value imported goods at throw away and nominal duty and taxes and charging bribe money on each import container as a price of their misuse of powers and the resulting heavy revenue loss on each container.
This cartel of senior custom officers allegedly amassed massive amounts of bribe money every month on the clearance of around ninety containers a month in the GB customs collectorate.
Sources said that Chairman FBR had asked Member Customs operations Mukarram Jah Ansari to probe the former Collector’s startling disclosures and revelations about the quantum of corruption in the FBR’s customs field formations.
The chairman FBR, an IRS officer and largely unaware of the deeper tricks of money making in the custom department under him, may be feeling assured that truth about GB…
