SIALKOT: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested main fugitive accused Muhammad Akram Mughal’s wife Mussarat Begum from Daska, besides, sealing two unmovable properties in the name of accused Akram Mughal and one property in the name of his wife Mussarat Begum. Accused was wanted in Rs.330 million financial scam.
Deputy Director FIA Sikandar Hayyat Malik told Customs Today that FIA will soon sell these sealed properties by the orders of the local court to ensure the early payment of the plundered money to more than 4000 affected people from this big financial scam.
He said that FIA had registered as many as 218 different cases against main fugitive accused Muhamamd Akram Mughal and his companions. Akram Mughal, the owner of the sealed travel agency namely “Nimra Travels International Daska” had fled away to abroad after plundering Rs.330 million from more than 4000 people by offering them lucrative Umrah packages about a month ago.
FIA had already seized as many as 4000 passports from a rented place in Daska which remained under the use of accused travel agent Akram Mughal. Deputy Director FIA added that as many as 11 accused were nominated in 218 different cases of this big fraud case of Daska, out of which FIA had arrested nine while the two accused Muhammad Akram Mughal and Muhamamd Javaid had fled abroad. FIA was in contacts with the Interpol to ensure the early arrest of the accused from abroad.
Deputy Director FIA Sikandar Hayyat Malik added that the FIA had also recovered Rs. 5 million from the accused Naeem Sarwar , the main companion of fugitive Akram. FIA arrested accused Naeem Sarwar a few days ago from Daska.
Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency has arrested accused Allah Rakha from village Romaal-Zafarwal in a twelve years old fraud and embezzlement case.
FIA senior officials told that accused had plundered and embezzled Rs. 4.4 million by fraud from the pension accounts of the retired army personnel at Zafarwal post office in 2003.
FIA produced accused before the court of local judicial Magistrate Muhammad Jamil Bhatti. The court granted five-day physical remand of the accused to FIA, in this case.
He disclosed that the FIA would soon declare 336 human traffickers as the proclaimed offenders (POs) in Gujranwala Division’s all six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud Din , Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts, besides, getting the orders of sealing and besieging their properties from local courts as well.
These 336 accused human traffickers were wanted by FIA in different cases of human trafficking and local judicial Magistrate Muhamamd Jamil Bhatti has already issued the non-bailable arrest warrants of the accused, in this regard. He said that the FIA has further tightened its circle around the human traffickers besides launching a crackdown against them.
