FAISALABAD: In a major crackdown in Faisalabad, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) in a joint operation with other agencies has busted an illegal call centre, apprehending at least 149 individuals, including foreigners, involved in a ponzi scheme.
A Faisalabad court has issued a 5-day physical remand of the arrested suspects in an online fraud network.
Senior Civil Judge Ashfaq Malik heard all seven cases and handed over the suspects arrested in the online fraud network to the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on remand.
According to NCCIA, the call centre belongs to a former chairman of the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) board of directors.
The apprehended include 78 Pakistanis, with the rest of the others from different countries, and among them, 131 are men and 18 are women.
According to authorities, the group used to send messages to gullible people on social media from a call center set up in the Sarliwala area of Faisalabad to lure them into investing online. The target of this group is mostly people living abroad.
According to sources, Malik Tahseen Awan is the prime suspect in all seven cases, and raids are underway to apprehend him.
