SIALKOT: The local court has ordered the confiscation of all the properties of Daska-based suspect Haji Muhammad Akram Mughal allegedly involved in Rs 330 million financial scam.
According to the details, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has submitted a petition before the local court, seeking permission to confiscate all the properties owned by Mughal, involved in Umrah financial scam worth Rs.330 million.
The FIA officials told the court that the agency has recently arrested this main accused from Saudi Arabia with the help of Interpol and all the victims of this financial scam, the biggest ever Rs.330 million financial scam in the history of Daska. FIA officials sought the early confiscation of all the properties of the accused for making payment to all the victims, in this regard.
In 2014, a Daska based travel agent Haji Muhamamd Akram Mughal, the owner of Nimra Travel Agency Daska, had fled away to Saudi Arabia after plundering Rs 330 million from the hundreds of the people from Daska, Sambrial, Sialkot, Pasrur and surrounding areas by offering them the Sasta Umrah Packages.
Earlier, the court has extended the physical remand of the accused Haji Muhamamd Akram Mughal for next four days in 38 different cases registered against the accused by FIA in Rs 330 million financial embezzlement. FIA officials produced the hand cuffed accused before the local judicial magisterial court in Gujranwala and sought a week-long extension in accused Haji Muhammad Akram Mughal’s existing physical remand for the recovery of the plundered money from the accused. On this, the court extended physical remand for next four days, in this regard.
Meanwhile, Ch. Khalid Anees (Deputy Director FIA Gujranwala Division) has assured that every single penny of all the victims of Daska financial scam would be recovered from the accused. A delegation of the victims led by Muhamamd Ashraf Naqshbandi called on him at his office the other day and they urged the FIA to ensure the early recovery of the plundered money of all the victims and its early return back to the victims as well.
On the other hand, the FIA has also arrested a travel agent-turned- human trafficker Ahmed Hameed from his travel agency located at Sialkot Cantt here.
FIA team led by sub inspector Khizar Hayyat also recovered nine passports of the people, fake official documents and visas stickers, stamps, fake student visas and medical certificates of different embassies and embossing machines from his travel agency.
According to the Ch. Khalid Anees (Deputy Director FIA Gujranwala Division), the accused had been running a black business of sending the innocent people abroad especially to European, African, Middle East countries and Gulf states after extorting big amounts from them after showing them the gold dreams of their lucid future in abroad.
He told that the FIA has sealed the said travel agency and sent the accused behind the bars after registering a case against him, in this regard.
