LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has booked six, including four bankers, in a fraud.

According to FIA CBC (Commercial Banking Circle Lahore), the accused persons namely Abdur Razak Gauhar and Akhtar Saeed, chief executive officer and director of a company, respectively, in collaboration with four bank officers withdrew a substantial amount of money from the joint accounts of their business partners.

The FIA booked them under section 406, 409, 109 of PPC r/w 5(2)47 PCA and arrested Gauhar and Saeed, and bank official Fayaz Hussain.

They were arrested by FIA CBC Lahore’s SHO Irfan Khan and Inspector Abdullah Khan. The other suspects are on bail.

Published in Dawn, March 8th, 2025

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