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WASHINGTON: Kamran Faridi, once a prominent operative with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has been freed from a Florida prison, having completed nearly four years of his 84-month sentence.
As per Dawn.com, back on December 9, 2022, Faridi received an 84-month prison term for convictions related to “transmitting threats in interstate commerce, threatening a federal officer, and obstruction of justice.”
However, on March 18, 2024, a federal judge in New York, Cathy Seibel, decided to trim Faridi’s sentence to 72 months.
Under specific terms, which include renouncing his US citizenship and agreeing to depart from the United States permanently before August, Faridi has been granted release.
Now 60 years old, Faridi hails from Block 3, Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Karachi. His early years were marked by association with the Peoples Students Federation (PSF), alongside Najeeb Ahmed, a PSF leader who met a tragic fate in 1990.
According to the London-based Middle East Eye (MEE) news magazine, Faridi is depicted as a ‘Karachi street hustler,’ whose family opted to send him to Sweden following his involvement in various violent incidents.
In 1991, Faridi relocated to the US, and by 1996, he had established himself, owning a gas station in Atlanta, Georgia. It was during this time that he caught the attention of FBI agents due to his fluency in Urdu, Punjabi, Hindi, and Spanish. Consequently, he was formally recruited as a full-time informant and agent.
