SIALKOT: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has compiled the final lists of as many as 13 big notorious human traffickers-turned-proclaimed offenders (POs) named in FIA’s Red Book and 300 other dangerous offenders, besides formulating 12 special vigilance teams to arrest the culprits.
Deputy Director FIA Gujranwala Ch. Khalid Anees told that the FIA has arrested as many as 12 other big notorious human traffickers-cum-proclaimed offenders, which were also named in FIA’s Red Book after raiding at various places in Gujranwala.
He said that most of the network of the human traffickers had been working in Gujrat, Mandi Bahaud, Sialkot, Kharian and Gujranwala, as they had also been running their black business of sending the people abroad illegally especially to European, African and Middle East countries and Gulf States by extorting big amounts after showing them the golden dreams of their lucid future in abroad.
Deputy Director FIA revealed that the FIA team has also arrested two accused brothers-turned human traffickers Salman and Usman from Pindi By Pass locality near Gujranwala. The accused had been sending the people to Dubai and UAE on fake visas after extorting big amounts from them, illegally. FIA also recovered several passports, fake visas, fake official documents and stamps of different embassies, fake medical certificates and embossing machines from there. FIA has sent the accused behind the bars after registering separate cases against them.
He said that FIA team raided at a money exchange in Dinga-Gujrat and arrested accused money changer Shehzad Fahad from there for running illegally business of money exchange. FIA also seized millions of rupees in cash in national and foreign currencies. FIA has sent the accused behind the bars after registering a case against him.
FIA also unearthed the two illegal networks of money exchange in Bohar Bazaar Lala Musa (Gujrat district)and Sialkot and arrested two accused Hassan and Mushtaq from their for running illegal business of money exchange, besides, recovering millions of rupees in cash in national and foreign currencies from there.