Fake Stamps: FIA raids forgery printing press

Press suspected of printing fake postage stamps as well as driving and arms licenses.

SIALKOT:

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has raided a printing press that is suspected of printing fake postage stamps as well as driving and arms licenses.

The FIA arrested five employees of the Rana Printing Press as well as its owner, Shakeel Rehman, and confiscated fake stamps with a face value of over Rs500,000. According to FIA officials, the press printed revenue and postage stamps with a face value worth Rs8 million in 2010.

FIA officials have also arrested a man employed by the post office for his alleged complicity in the forgery ring.



Published in The Express Tribune, April 23^rd, 2011.