RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s Anti-Corruption Circle Islamabad has arrested four persons, including officials of the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority (FGEHA), involved in corruption and malpractice.

The special judge central cancelled the pre-arrest bails of the suspects, which led to their arrests by the FIA.

A spokesman for the FIA said that the FIA Islamabad arrested four suspects allegedly involved in corruption and malpractice.

The suspects were serving as patwaris in the CDA, the spokesman said.

They allegedly prepared fake reports regarding the land of Mouza Shah Allah Ditta, Sector D-13, and showed fake ownership of 4 kanals of land, said the spokesman.

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The suspects fraudulently registered a power of attorney with the connivance of other accused. And they defrauded the complainant of Rs7 million.

They changed the ownership of the plot by forgery, claimed the spokesman.

They forged the ownership of the plot and transferred it to an unrelated person, the FIA said.

One of them is posted as a deputy director at the Federal Government Employees Housing Authority, while the other one is posted as an executive engineer.

The spokesman said that the cases were registered against the accused last year, adding that the suspects were arrested after the cancellation of their bails and an investigation had been launched.

Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency’s Islamabad Zone conducted a raid in Gujrat and arrested two suspected human smugglers allegedly involved in the Libya boat accident.

The spokesman said the suspects were involved in extorting millions of rupees from innocent people by promising them jobs abroad.

The spokesman said that the suspects received millions of rupees to illegally send the citizens to Europe via Libya, adding that people died in a boat accident while moving from Libya to Europe.

In the second operation, the FIA rounded up one of the suspects from Amarpura in Rawalpindi. The suspect reportedly used to provide fake visas for European countries, Canada, Dubai to people by charging huge sums of money, said the spokesman.

The suspect was wanted by the FIA Islamabad zone for the last six years. A case was registered against the suspect with the Anti-Human Trafficking circle Islamabad in 2019.

According to the initial investigation, the suspect had been running an organised human trafficking network in Lahore as well.

The spokesman said more arrests were expected in the wake of the investigation.

The FIA Anti-Corruption Circle Islamabad have arrested two bank officers, involved in a fraud to the tune of millions of rupees through bogus cheques.

He said that the suspects were arrested from Islamabad.

The accused withdrew Rs22.7 million from a private account using a bogus check.

The arrested suspects were posted as OG-3 in various branches of the bank located in Islamabad. He added raids were underway to arrest other suspects.

Published in Dawn, January 3rd, 2025