{"id":1351,"date":"2025-07-21T21:59:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custombulletin.com\/english\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T16:59:41","slug":"fbr-penalises-six-customs-officers-for-inefficiency-misconduct-corruption-not-proven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custombulletin.com\/english\/2025\/07\/21\/fbr-penalises-six-customs-officers-for-inefficiency-misconduct-corruption-not-proven\/","title":{"rendered":"FBR penalises six Customs officers for inefficiency, misconduct; corruption not proven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has concluded disciplinary proceedings against six officers of Pakistan Customs Service under the Civil Servants (Efficiency &amp; Discipline) Rules, 2020, awarding minor penalties for charges including inefficiency, misconduct, and supervisory negligence, while corruption allegations were not substantiated in any of the cases; the officers have also been penalised with a six-month suspension of their performance allowance in light of FBR\u2019s Performance Allowance Guidelines, 2015 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade-17 Principal Appraiser Fazal Karim of Collectorate of Customs, Airports, Karachi was found guilty of inefficient examination and assessment in the clearance of a consignment involving &#8220;New Samsung Galaxy Tablets A7&#8221; and was awarded the penalty of withholding of annual increment for three years without cumulative effect; the inquiry officer found no evidence of corruption but confirmed negligence resulting in a recoverable revenue loss of Rs.9.7 million; he has been reinstated into service with the suspension period treated as leave, and his performance allowance suspended for six months<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade-17 Senior Preventive Officer Syed Hassan Mehdi, from the same collectorate and linked to the same GD case, was also found guilty of inefficiency and misconduct; he received the same penalty of three-year increment withholding, was reinstated into government service after suspension, and his performance allowance was stopped for six months<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade-17 Principal Appraiser Saqib Nazir Khan, formerly posted at Collectorate of Customs Appraisement (West), Lahore and currently serving at Central Appraising Unit, Karachi, was penalised with a minor penalty of censure for supervisory inefficiency in two out of five GDs; charges of corruption and misconduct were not proven during inquiry proceedings, and the officer did not avail the opportunity of personal hearing; his performance allowance has been suspended for six months<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade-16 Inspector Ali Zaman, Collectorate of Customs, Airports, Karachi, was penalised with the same three-year increment withholding without cumulative effect for inaccurate examination and assessment in the same Samsung Tablets GD; corruption was not established but negligence was confirmed in the inquiry report; he was reinstated, his suspension treated as leave, and performance allowance stopped for six months<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade-16 Appraising Officer Maira Gulraiz, posted at Collectorate of Customs Appraisement (East), Karachi, was awarded the penalty of one-year increment withholding for misconduct after inquiry found her guilty of misbehaving with the Deputy Collector (Law); though she denied the charge, she admitted exchange of harsh words during personal hearing; her previous record includes a penalty in February 2023 for serious irregularities; her performance allowance has also been withheld for six months<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>All officers penalised in the \u201cSamsung A7 GD clearance\u201d case \u2013 Fazal Karim, Syed Hassan Mehdi and Ali Zaman \u2013 were found negligent in their respective roles but cleared of corruption, with the financial loss of Rs.9.7 million subsequently recovered from the importer after reassessment; the officers have the right to appeal the decisions within 30 days under the Civil Servants (Appeals) Rules, 1977<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has concluded disciplinary proceedings against six officers of Pakistan Customs Service under the Civil Servants (Efficiency &amp; Discipline) Rules, 2020, awarding minor penalties for charges including inefficiency, misconduct, and supervisory negligence, while corruption allegations were not substantiated in any of the cases; 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