The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) busted a smuggling ring in Karachi and recovered a large cache of smuggled items, including surgical instruments, expired lenses, currency, and gold.
Deputy Director FIA RaufShaikh said that they raided a bungalow in the PECHS area, and confiscated a large quantity of smuggled goods. The recovered items included smuggled surgical instruments from India, expired lenses, currency worth millions, and kilograms of gold.The Deputy Director FIA revealed that the smuggled surgical instruments were sold in various hospitals across the city, and were imported from India with fake labels of other countries. RaufShaikh said that the currency was also used for HawalaHundi.
The agency has registered a case against the suspects and is investigating the matter further. The FIA is seeking to find out additional information and capture people responsible for the extensive smuggling network that has been exposed during the investigation’s early phases.Earlier, the FIA arrested three members of an organisedhawala-hundi gang from Dera Ghazi Khan.
