FAISALABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a human trafficker namely Muhammad Ali son of Muhammad Rafique. The suspect is resident of tehsil Hasilpur district Bahawalpur .
Sources told Customs Today, that FIA Deputy Director Syed Imam Zaidi and Sub inspector Taimoor Haider conducted a raid along with his team near Jhang Road and arrested the accused who was running illegal business of sending innocent people abroad after extorting big amounts from them. The accused person extorted Rs4,59,000 from Matloob Ahmed resident of Taba Tek Singh for sending him to Malaysia.
The FIA team also recovered four original Pakistani passport from his possession. Moreover, while checking of mobile phone of the accused scanned copies of FIRs, affidavit CNICs of different people of passport, sticker visa of Malaysia, labour demand of different countries, electronic tickets, bank transaction receipts, whats app conversation with different agents regarding employment visas for different countries were found from the mobiles of the accused.
The officials sent the accused behind bar after registering a case No, 511/16 of human smuggling against him under Section (U/S), 17/22 Immigration Ordinance 1979. Further investigations are still in progress till filing of this news.
