by Qaiser Shirazi in The Express Tribune, Sept 5th, 2023.An additional district and sessions court of Rawalpindi awarded death penalty to four accused in a blasphemy case filed by the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing (CCW). A fifth accused was sentenced to seven years in jail by the court. Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Ahsan Mahmood Malik passed the judgment in two separate cases. He said in his ruling that blasphemy against…
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report in Daily Mirror online, Sept 1, 2023 at 08:25 pmSince Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malclom Ranjith had slammed the government authorities to name the group which supported the Easter Sunday bombers, Minister of Public security Tiran Allas invited him and the Church to go through the investigations and outline any shortcomings. “We have already informed the Church authorities to go through the investigations into the Easter Sunday attacks. The Church is welcome to show…
report in The Daily Starm Aug 26m 2023Around five lakh people might have been scammed by the cyber ponzi scheme Metaverse Foreign Exchange (MTFE), losing several thousand crores of taka, suspect the Criminal Investigation Department of police. Most of the victims are from Dhaka, Barishal, Rajshahi, Cumilla, Naogaon, Kushtia, Brahmanbaria and Satkhira, said CID following primary investigation. The aggrieved are advised to contact the CID Cyber Support Center to inform and report the fraudsters, said…
report in The Himalayan Times, Jun 29, 2023KATHMANDU, JUNE 28: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said the government’s investigation into fake Bhutanese refugee scam proved that nobody was above the law. Responding to lawmakers’ queries on the budgetary allocation, the PM said from the rostrum of the House of Representatives that there was an impression in society that VIPs were above the law, but the government proved that wrong in the fake Bhutanese refugee…
by Chaitanya Chandra Halder, Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, June 26, 2023The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of 37 more people in the much-talked about Tk 2,000 crore money laundering racket of Faridpur. The newly identified suspects include current and former leaders of the ruling Awami League in the district. The case was originally filed by the CID with Kafrul Police Station in June 2020 against Sajjad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz…
Report in Dawn, April 27th, 2023KARACHI: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested two suspected militants associated with the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). A spokesman for the SIU said that the held suspects were involved in targeted killings and extortion. They were identified as Muhammad Kamal Khan and Abdul Qadir. He said that the suspects confessed to their involvement in several crimes which they committed on the orders of TTP leadership…
By Prithvi Man Shrestha in The Kathmandu Post, April 12, 2023A complaint has been registered at the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) to investigate an alleged attempt by the Rastriya Swatantra Party Lawmaker Dhaka Kumar Shrestha to ‘buy’ for himself the post of health minister. In a leaked audio, a voice, allegedly of Shrestha, demands Rs20 million from another person, presumably the controversial medical entrepreneur Durga Prasai, so that Shrestha can become…
Report in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2022LAKKI MARWAT: An official of the Federal Investigation Agency was shot dead in Tajazai area of Lakki Marwat on Saturday. Officials said FIA’s assistant director Inamullah Khan, 48, and his relatives were present in an under-construction house in Mohallah Mir Walikhel when armed men came there and opened fire, killing the officer on the spot. The killers were identified as Sharifullah and Ali Bahadar. They said Inamullah’s relatives narrowly escaped…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Oct 11, 2022ISLAMABAD: A business tycoon, Tariq Shafi, has emerged as the main ‘cash boy’ of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the investigation so far conducted into the foreign funding case by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). He is a member of PTI’s Central Finance Board, signatory of the party’s main account and the member of Board of Governors of Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital. Other businessmen under scrutiny for helping…