The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has detained two suspects for fraud as they offered a university professor a job in the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) and one of them went as far as presenting himself as Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal, asking for a big sum of money as the “processing fee” for the job.
The arrests were made by the investigative body’s Cyber Crime Division after FIR No 55/16 was registered by an Islamabad-based educationist who was allegedly lured into paying the ‘processing fee’ for getting a job at a CPEC-related project.
During the raid, the FIA arrested Ali Ahmad Bhatti and Sohail Baig, whose bank accounts were used to transfer the money, and recovered the amount. According to the investigation team, initial investigations suggest that the gang used multiple bank accounts to complicate tracking of transactions.
In the backdrop of the scam, the FIA has requested citizens to come forward and share information if anyone has been cheated by this gang on the following number: +92300 5226227.
