Fake visa traveller offloaded from Italy flight
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday offloaded and detained a passenger travelling to Italy via the New Islamabad International Airport on fake travel documents. In another operation, cell phones and laptops worth Rs7 million were recovered from two passengers coming from abroad.
According to officials, a passenger named Sajid Abbasi from Mandi Bahauddin reached the airport to travel on flight number TK711 to Italy. The immigration officials found his Italian resident card fake, offloaded him and transferred him to the Anti-Human Trafficking circle. The suspect disclosed during the initial investigation that he got the Italian visa from an agent.
Separately, the FIA officials frisked the luggage of passengers Mohammad Suleman and Mohammad Abid, who came from Dubai on flight number ED211, and found five iPhone 15 Promax, three iPhone 13, three Samsung Galaxy S24 and eight laptops with a total value of Rs7m in the secret boxes of their luggage.
The suspects, who belong to Karachi, couldn’t satisfy the authorities about their luggage items and repeated travels during interrogation. They were later handed over to the Customs authorities for further legal action.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 24th, 2024.