FIA arrests man over Rs6m scam

A team of the Federal Investigation agency (FIA) arrested a postal service employee and his brother for tampering with a passbook to transfer Rs6 million from General Post Office (GPO) to his name and registered a case against four people. FIA sources said Abdul Wajid, deputed at the Dijkot post office, knew about the money in a citizen Mukhtar Masih's account opened in 1991 and he obtained a passbook from him. The accused withdrew the amount of Rs6 million from the account between 1991 and 2016 by transferring it to the fake account of his brother Abdul Khaliq along with GPO employees Shahid Pervez and Nasir. The complaint was forwarded to the FIA by the postal department. After conducting an inquiry, Sub Inspector Amanat Ali arrested Abdul Wajid and his brother Abdul Khaliq. During interrogation, they revealed that they had obtained money from the postal department by tampering with Mukhtar Masih's passbook, the sources said. The FIA official produced the two arrested brothers in a court and was granted their physical remand. Meanwhile, two employees of the GPO, Shahid Pervez and Nasir, sought interim bail from the court.