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RAWALPINDI: Police have arrested two accused involved in fraud and malpractices besides recovering fake journalist cards from their possession.
According to sources, Naseerabad police arrested Muzamil and his accomplice Shehzad, an accused with a criminal history of extorting money from innocent citizens through fraud and forgery by impersonating as journalists.
Fake press cards were also recovered from their possession, sources added. Sources further said the accused Muzammil and Shehzad used to extort money from the citizens by posing as journalists.
Superintendent of Police, Pothohar Syed Ali commended the Naseerabad police team. He said, “It is the prime duty of the police to protect the life and property of the people.”
A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against the arrested accused under several provisions of the Criminal Act and police started further investigation.
Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had claimed to have apprehended six suspects involved in extorting billions of rupees from people across Pakistan mostly by using digital technology.
According to the FIA sources, the group comprising five foreigners and one Pakistani allegedly swindled people on the internet social connecting platform Facebook pretending to be girls.
The cybercrime wing of FIA said the group would send friends request to Pakistani people with fake profiles flaunting profile pictures of foreign women and fleeced millions of rupees from their victims.
FIA claims out of six in the group, the five foreigners belong to Nigeria and have defrauded countless men on the internet. Cybercrime officials, he said, coordinated closely during the course of their investigations, which led to successful actions across the country.
