FAISALABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a fake travel agent from Faisalabad during a raid carried out on late Saturday night.
The suspect, identified as Umar, has been shifted to an unknown location and the agency has started the investigation.
According to the police, the fake travel agent took hundreds of thousands of rupees from the unsuspected citizens under the promise of sending them abroad but never did and kept the money.
On February 21, a human trafficker by the name of Qaiser Abbas Khan was arrested by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Anti-Human Trafficking Circle.
Khan was operating as the chief manager of Al Hashmi Travel Hajj and Umrah. He was running the travel agency without having any legal authorisation. The very same agency had been seized by FIA in the past as well.
Officials recovered 11 passports and other material from the possession of accused and the office premises were seized as well.
An FIR under 46/2018 U/S 6(1)(G)(H) Passport Act 1974 R/w 201,109 PPC has been registered and an investigation has commenced.
