Misappropriation: Former FIA man remanded till Jan 19
Ghaffar is one of the employees sacked on misappropriation charges.
LAHORE:
The Federal Investigation Agency has taken into custody a former forensics expert at the National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) Punjab chapter on a remand till January 19 for misappropriation of equipment recovered in various raids.
Abdul Ghaffor was remanded into the FIA’s custody on Thursday (Jan 12), a day after he had been arrested and a case registered against him under Section 409 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 5(2)47 of Prevention of Corruption Act.
Ghaffar and three other officials including a regional coordinator and an office superintendent had been sacked by the FIA on misappropriation charges. The contracts of Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Irfan Qureshi (forensics experts); Sarfaraz Chaudhry, posted as FIA NR3C Islamabad chapter regional coordinator; and Saif, an office superintendent in Islamabad, were terminated through a notification on January 6.
Federal Investigation Agency police station house officer Inspector Tariq Maqsood Dhillon has started investigations into the matter.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2012.
The Federal Investigation Agency has taken into custody a former forensics expert at the National Response Centre for Cyber Crime (NR3C) Punjab chapter on a remand till January 19 for misappropriation of equipment recovered in various raids.
Abdul Ghaffor was remanded into the FIA’s custody on Thursday (Jan 12), a day after he had been arrested and a case registered against him under Section 409 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 5(2)47 of Prevention of Corruption Act.
Ghaffar and three other officials including a regional coordinator and an office superintendent had been sacked by the FIA on misappropriation charges. The contracts of Abdul Ghaffar, Muhammad Irfan Qureshi (forensics experts); Sarfaraz Chaudhry, posted as FIA NR3C Islamabad chapter regional coordinator; and Saif, an office superintendent in Islamabad, were terminated through a notification on January 6.
Federal Investigation Agency police station house officer Inspector Tariq Maqsood Dhillon has started investigations into the matter.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 17th, 2012.