Scam: Female bank employee, man found guilty of Rs65m fraud

Separately, Rangers detained 11 suspects during raids in Banaras Colony.

KARACHI:

The Rangers Special Task Force, in collaboration with the Special Investigation Unit and the Federal Investigation Agency, claimed to have unearthed a bank fraud scam and arrested a woman and a man in connection with it.

According to a Rangers spokesperson, Noman Afendi had gone to the Bank Islami UP Morr branch and met his accomplice Sidra, a bank employee working at the cash counter, who gave him a fake deposit receipt of Rs65 million.

He said that when the bank found out about the fraud, they called Sidra for an explanation, but she had disappeared on September 4, while Afendi had been blackmailing the bank president since then. The spokesperson said that after a four-hour-long operation, Sidra and Afendi were arrested from a guesthouse on Sharae Faisal.

11 suspects arrested

Meanwhile, as many as 11 suspects were taken into custody during a search operation conducted by the Rangers in the Banaras Colony area of Orangi Town.

The arrests were made during a series of intelligence-driven targeted raids on suspected hideouts of banned outfits in Banaras Colony.  More than 300 Rangers personnel, including female soldiers, the K-9 Dog Unit and anti-terrorist troops, participated in the operation, in which aerial surveillance was also conducted.

According to a Rangers spokesperson, 11 criminals, including members of banned outfits were arrested, while 24 weapons, including submachine guns were also seized.

The detainees were shifted to an undisclosed location for further questioning.

Separately, the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC) busted an inter-province gang of motorcycle thieves. The arrested persons were identified as Imtiaz Ali Abro, Mehboob Ali Gopang, Lal Dino, Shakeel Saleem and Haider Ali Chandio. ACLC officials said that they were involved in motorcycle lifting, snatching, forgery, tampering and disfiguring of the chassis and engine numbers.

They also claimed to have recovered motorcycles along with punching material, fake papers, number plates and open parts.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 5^th, 2014.