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LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday arrested four suspects believed to have been involved in a fake passport scam carried out by a Lahore-based politician and other officials.
UK-based tabloid The Sun had claimed to have unearthed a scam on Monday, involving a “Lahore-based politician” and other officials, wherein Pakistani nationals were brought into England under the garb of participants and officials accompanying the Pakistani Olympics delegation for the summer 2012 games – set to start on Friday.
A case has been registered against the four men in FIA’s anti-woman trafficking circle. They will be investigated by the agency.
One of the suspects is a National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) official, while the remaining three are passports agents.
Several raiding teams of the FIA have been constituted and further raids are expected.
A team of senior Nadra officials has also arrived in Lahore to facilitate the investigations.
According to an exclusive report of a sting operation published in The Sun, a journalist allegedly broke into “a crime ring offering false passports, visas — and access to London 2012 as bogus support staff.”
The Sun had alleged that Lahore-based politician Abid Chaudhry offered its undercover reporter in Pakistan the chance to go to the Olympics posing as an official member of the Pakistani contingent on a two-month visa in return for a million rupees ($10,000).
The crime ring had been under investigation after the daily informed UK intelligence, MI6, the Home Office, the UK Border Agency and the British High Commission in Islamabad.