{"id":49914,"date":"2026-04-13T22:51:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49914"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:51:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:51:28","slug":"two-customs-officers-arrested-for-allegedly-replacing-400kg-of-seized-silver-with-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=49914","title":{"rendered":"Two Customs officers arrested for allegedly replacing 400kg of seized silver with lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/04\/14005719fbd2735.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Customs said on Monday that two of its preventive officers had been arrested on charges of \u201cswapping 400 kilogrammes of seized silver bullion with lead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on X, the Pakistan Customs said the alleged replacement of silver with lead was carried out \u201cduring official transportation from Quetta to Pakistan Mint Lahore\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  w-full  w-full  media--left    media--uneven  media--stretch\" data-original-src=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Pak_Customs\/status\/2043711550318686445\">\n<div class=\"media__item  media__item--twitter  \"><span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Pak_Customs\/status\/2043711550318686445\"><\/a>\n    <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A first information report had been registered and both officers were in custody, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It added, \u201cThe officers were officially deputed to transport 688 kg of confiscated silver in 36 sealed boxes via Pakistan International Airlines from Quetta to Lahore. Upon unpacking at Pakistan Mint, 400 kg of silver was found to have been replaced with fake lead bricks of identical weight and packaging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, CCTV footage from Safe City in Quetta \u201cconfirmed the deliberate swapping of the transportation vehicle carrying the original silver\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1991431\/two-customs-officers-arrested-for-allegedly-replacing-400kg-of-seized-silver-with-lead\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Customs said on Monday that two of its preventive officers had been arrested on charges of \u201cswapping 400 kilogrammes of seized silver bullion with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}