SIALKOT: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested Mussarat Begum, the wife of Muhammad Akram Mughal, a fugitive in a Rs330 million scam.

The agency also sealed two unmovable properties of Mughal, and one property of Mussarat, FIA Deputy Director Sikandar Hayyat Malik said on Saturday.

He said they would auction the properties after getting court orders to pay to several victims who paid sums to Nimra Travel Agency’s owner Mughal for Umra and Haj tours.

The FIA has registered cases against 11 people in the case, of them nine have been arrested while Mughal and Muhammad Javed will be brought back from Dubai through Interpol. Mr Malik said they had seized Rs5 million from accused Naeem Sarwar, who was arrested a week ago.

In another development, the FIA arrested Allah Rakha in Romaal-Zafarwal in a fraud case. FIA officials said Rakha had embezzled Rs4.4 million from the pension accounts of retired army personnel at Zafarwal post office in 2003.

The FIA got his five-day physical remand.

CASE: In a first case registered under the Amended Sound System and Regulation Ordinance, Sambrial magistrate Naveed Abbas sentenced religious leader Hakim Imtiaz to two-day rigorous imprisonment with a Rs25,000 fine for misusing the public address system of a mosque.

Published in Dawn, February 1st, 2015

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