LAHORE, Nov 27: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday raided offices of a tour operator on Empress Road and arrested its proprietors for allegedly transferring Rs2 billion abroad through illegal hawala and hundi.

Crime Circle deputy director Azhar Mahmood told Dawn that Shaukat Ali and Liaquat Ali of Talib-i-Madina Tour Operators transferred most of the amount to their offices in Riyadh, Jeddah and Sharjah.

He said a raiding team seized the record, including a computer, Rs2.5 million and a Kalashnikov from the office besides taking into custody both the proprietors.

Human smuggling: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed on Thursday to have arrested a South African on charges of human smuggling.

An FIA official told Dawn that Jane Vlijoen Smith alias Jane Victor Smith had charged Rs2.5 million from half-a-dozen people on the promise of sending them to the UK. He posed him before them an official of the British High Commission.

On Thursday, an FIA team arrested him from Kamoki.

A case has been registered against him.