Deputy Director Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Ishfaq Alam on Monday claimed to have apprehended two gangs of criminals involved in making fake passports and fake currency. He also claimed that the FIA had recovered fake currencies, passports and visas along with materials to make the same, from the culprits’ possession.
Addressing a press conference at the FIA Centre, Saddar, he said on January 22, 2015, a raid was conducted by the FIA team in which an accused Mairaj Alam Siddiqui, son of Musarat Ali Siddiqui, was arrested, and a number of fake documents were recovered from him.
He said that they also received information that accused was involved in sending hopeful emigrants to Australia on the pretext of providing them employments through commercial ships, but by using fake documents. He was charging huge amounts as payment, which could go as high as Rs. 500,000.
Furthermore, he had extorted over Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 350,000 (as advance) from people who wanted to travel abroad on the same pretext, he said.
Another arrest took place only a few days letter. “After we received credible information, during the night of February 7, 2015, accused Nadeem Anwar Khan son of Abdul Waheed Khan, was arrested and 50 Pakistani passports, including blank booklets of passports, toned pages for passports, 95 blank (forged) Iranian visa stickers, laminations used in Pakistani passports (date page), as well as fake Pakistani currency were recovered from his possession,” explained the FIA deputy direction.
Alam further said that, “[the] accused Nadeem in connivance with his associates Haji Muhammad Amin, Rashid Anwar Khan, and others, were involved in providing fake Iranian visas to illegal emigrants, who were proceeding to Turkey and Greece via Iran by illegal means.”
“The accused Nadeem and others are notorious agents. The accused is also involved in absconding in two cases of FIA AHTC Karachi,” he informed.
