Four arrested for blackmailing men after marriage

Accused made obscene photos and videos after drugging victims

GUJRANWALA: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Gujranwala Region arrested four members of a global gang involved in looting citizens after marriage.

During raids in Sialkot on Saturday, two women named Misbah Rani and Asma, nikkah lawyer Hafiz Khalid and marriage witness Zulfiqar Ali were arrested, ACE Gujranwala Region Director Fareed Ahmed revealed to Express News.



Ahmed said action was taken against the group after a local citizen from Gujrat filed a complaint, while several other members of the group were arrested some days ago in Islamabad. During initial Interrogation, the women confessed to looting four people, each, after marriage.



The women used social media to trap internationally-based Pakistanis and rich men from other countries. After duping them into getting married, the women, aided by their accomplices, would drug the men.

After rendering their victims unconscious, the group would take explicit and incriminating photos and videos which would late be used to blackmail the men. In the case of non-compliance, the group would threaten to upload the photos and videos on social media.

Last week, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a man for harassing and blackmailing a woman in Lahore.



Khalida Batool, a resident of WAPDA Town, registered a complaint with the FIA regarding sexual harassment and blackmail. On her complaint investigations were initiated which led the FIA’s Cyber Crime Circle team to conduct a raid in WAPDA Town. The team arrested the man and also recovered data from his mobile phone which included pictures of the victim and their online correspondence.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 13^th, 2018.