SUKKUR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has unearthed a Rs12.34 million scam in the Sukkur Electric Power Company (Sepco) and picked up two suspects, it emerged on Saturday.

Local FIA officials said they were investigating the matter by obtaining relevant records of the company and details of bank transactions. They said more Sepco officers and lower grade employees might be interrogated in the days to come.

Sharing details, they said that FIA’s Sukkur Circle had registered an FIR (No.7/2026) against assistant lineman Zulfiqar Ali and commercial assistant Mohammad Amir Solangi on a complaint lodged by Sepco’s Director Human Resource and Administration Deepak Kumar.

Mr Kumar has alleged that some of the company’s employees had been manipulating the billing system and also recording higher collections than actually received.

He claimed that an amount of Rs12.34 million was involved in the manipulation committed through false electricity bills during May and June, 2025, alone.

A revenue officer of the company, Karamat Ali, and an outsider, Sujal Kumar, have also been named as suspects involved in the scam.

After registering the FIR, the agency’s investigation officer, Saddam Soomro conducted a raid on a place to pick up Zulfiqar Ali and Amir Solangi for interrogation.

The officer said that his team was looking into the wide gap between the amount shown in the system-reported revenues and the sums deposited in the company’s bank accounts.

“The suspects manually adjusted monthly records and concealed the differential in bank transactions, making it to appear as if the collections matched the official records,” the officer said.

The FIA officer said that during further investigation, his team would examine the role of other Sepco officers and lower grade employees working in the finance and HR departments in the scam. He added that the bank officers concerned would also be interviewed to determine whether the scam was limited to a few individuals or they had been working under a larger organised network.

According to Sepco officials, false and fake billing not only compromise the company’s financial record, but also cause direct losses to the national exchequer. They said the investigation and action against the guilty would help the company overcome the weaknesses, if any, of the system and ensure financial transparency

Mr Soomro stated: “We will conduct a detailed review of records from all relevant staff, finance department and banks. Only after fully mapping the case, we will consider arrests or some other action”.

Published in Dawn, May 10th, 2026