FAISALABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a human-trafficker namely Shoket Hayat son of Muhammad Ali residential of Srawani patowana during an action.
Sources told Customs Today that FIA Deputy Director Syed Imam Zaidi and Sub inspector Taimoor Haider conducted a raid along with his team near Jhung Road Faisalabad and arrested the accused who was running illegal business of sending innocent people abroad after extorting big amounts from them. The accused person extorted the huge amount of Rs800,000 from the complainant person named as Taimoor Safdar Son of Safdar Iqbal resident of the jhang.
During the searching the FIA team also recovered from his possession, original Pakistani passport and some copies of passports. Moreover, while checking of mobile phones of the accused scanned copies of FIRs, affidavit CNICs of different people of passport, sticker visa of UK , 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, 40/17 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.
