Faisalabad FIA arrests notorious human trafficker

FAISALABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a human trafficker Muhammad Rafique son of Manzoor Hussain during an action.

Sources told Customs Today, that FIA Deputy Director Syed Imam Zaidi and Sub Inspector Taimoor Haider, Tanveer Bajwa conducted a raid along with his team near Guttwala  and arrested the accused who was running illegal business of sending innocent people abroad after extorting big amounts from them. The accused person extorted Rs 3,53,000 from Naeem Parvez Masih for sending him to Dubai  .

The FIA team also recovered from his possession four original Pakistani passports and some copies of passport were recovers. Moreover, while checking of mobile phone of the accused scanned copies of FIRs, affidavit CNICs of different people of passport, sticker visa of Dubai 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, 82/17. 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.