ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday that Mohammad Ali Asad, a central character of the so-called Olympic visa scam, would be brought to Pakistan with the assistance of Interpol, DawnNews reported.

The interior minister said that details pertaining to his passport would soon be shared with public.

Malik said that whoever will be found guilty in the scam will be punished.

Moreover, he said that Pakistani authorities were alert and ready for the proceedings of the case. Adding that, information compilation procedure of National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) was fool-proof.

Malik said that Pakistani investigation team would soon be sent to London for further investigation of the matter.

Earlier on Monday, the Federal Investigative Authority (FIA) had declared Asad as the main accused in the case and decided to contact the Interpol for red warrants against him.

The Pakistani government had registered a case against Asad for fraud, impersonation and mis-declaration, and is seeing his deportation from the United Kingdom.

The scandal came to the fore after the British tabloid “The Sun” published a report of a scam involving fake documents for travel to London, allegedly in connection with Pakistan’s Olympic contingent.

Last week, the Pakistani federal cabinet had announced it would sue the UK-based tabloid for the “fabricated” story alleging that a group of travel agents and a politician were involved in the scam, which allowed anyone to travel with the Pakistani Olympic contingent as support staff if they pay a certain amount of money.

However, an investigation conducted by the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) dismissed the claims and called its report a “fake scam.”

“There was no fraud or illegal activity done while obtaining the ID cards and passport of “the Sun Man” Mohammad Ali Asad,” a Nadra statement had said.