The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Cyber Crime Cell Rawalpindi claimed on Wednesday to have busted a gang involved in microfinance bank frauds, arresting three people and recovering a large number of mobile phone SIMs of multiple networks, thousands of silicon fingerprints and prints, besides electronic devices.
The FIA officials have launched a crackdown against illegal activation and business of mobile phone SIMs and microfinance banking fraud on the complaint of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
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Fawad Khan, Khalil Gibran and Jafar Hussain were taken into custody and eight mobile phones, one laptop, five BVS devices, 770 silicone thumbprints, 285 thumbprints, and 11,000 digital thumbprints were seized from the suspects.
The officials also confiscated active 751 SIMs of Jazz, 1,046 of Ufone, 1,014 of Telenor and 435 of Zong networks from the arrested suspects.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 29th, 2024.
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