GUJRANWALA: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing has busted a large network operating an international pornographic website from Gujranwala Narowal, arresting one suspect of the gang.
According to sources, the officials of FIA on Tuesday conducted a raid in Narowal and arrest a man allegedly involved in child pornography. The spokesman for the FIA said the officials conducted the raid after the information on the accused was shared with the Pakistani authorities by the Brazilian government.
After getting information on the accused from Interpol, the FIA took prompt action and arrested the man allegedly involved in child pornography, he added.
During the raid the FIA team recovered more than 6,000 child pornography videos from his possession, the spokesman said, adding that the laptop of the accused and other devices have been sent to a forensic lab for examination.
He was part of an international gang involved in child pornography, the official said adding that the agency has acquired a four-day physical remand of the accused after registering a case against him.
On October 18, the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing had busted a large network operating an international pornographic website from Karachi, arresting one suspect of the gang.
According to the FIA officials, the group used women to record sexually explicit videos for international clients through a mobile app. These women were then paid in ‘diamond’ (a form of virtual currency) for sexually explicit video calls with their clients.
The more diamonds a woman received, the more she would be paid by the network, disclosed the FIA. Some of the women — besides the video calls — were forced to do immoral acts by the network as well, disclosed the FIA officials.
The FIA said the gang by using these women issue advertisements in newspapers in which women were offered salaries of up to Rs 40,000 per month to work from home.
The FIA officials said that the network has 35 members across Pakistan. The women, who were involved in the immoral video calls, were paid Rs 7,000 after they collected 400,000 diamonds.
