SIALKOT: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has started special inquiries against eight officials of three federal government departments in major corruption scams and financial embezzlement in Gujranwala region.
FIA Gujranwala Deputy Director Khalid Anees added FIA had arrested nine accused human traffickers and their agents from six Sialkot, Narowal, Gujrat, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad and Gujranwala districts.
He said that the FIA has also smashed as many as six well organised gangs of the human traffickers and money changers and has sent the arrested accused Shehzad, Haneef, Asghar, Ramzan, Ghulam Abbas and Akram behind bars.
He said that the FIA teams have also recovered Rs200,000 in cash, dozens of the mobile phones, illegal official documents, educational and medical certificates, fake stamps, embossing machines and visas of different embassies in Pakistan and nine passports from these accused.
He said that the senior FIA officials including Assistant Director M Sarwar, inspectors Sajjad Bajwa, Shahid Mehmood and sub inspectors Khizar Hayyat Mughal, Javaid Iqbal Ghuman, Malik Waqar Hussain Awan, Ch. Zahid Farooq and Rana Tehseen Khan took active part under his supervision during the ongoing crackdown on the human traffickers.–Staff Reporter