{"id":79940,"date":"2025-07-09T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=79940"},"modified":"2025-07-09T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T13:13:30","slug":"nccia-detains-149-in-faisalabad-ponzi-scheme-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nccia-detains-149-in-faisalabad-ponzi-scheme-crackdown\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCIA detains 149 in Faisalabad Ponzi scheme crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAISALABAD: In a major crackdown in Faisalabad, the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nccia-busted-local-gang-involved-in-online-scam\/\">(NCCIA)<\/a> in a joint operation with other agencies has busted an illegal call centre, apprehending at least 149 individuals, including foreigners, involved in a<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/business\/al-haj-automotive-victims-write-to-prime-minister-over-fraud-in-proton-cars-delivery\/\"> ponzi scheme.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Faisalabad court has issued a 5-day physical remand of the arrested suspects in an online fraud network.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Civil Judge Ashfaq Malik heard all seven cases and handed over the suspects arrested in the online fraud network to the National Cyber \u200b\u200bCrime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) on remand.<\/p>\n<p>According to NCCIA, the call centre belongs to a former chairman of the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>The apprehended include 78 Pakistanis, with the rest of the others from different countries, and among them, 131 are men and 18 are women.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u200b\u200bFaisalabad to lure them into investing online. The target of this group is mostly people living abroad.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, Malik Tahseen Awan is the prime suspect in all seven cases, and raids are underway to apprehend him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.\u00a0 A Faisalabad court has issued a 5-day physical remand of the arrested suspects in an online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":79942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,2],"tags":[16246,30006],"class_list":["post-79940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-pakistan","tag-nccia","tag-ponzi-scheme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79943,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79940\/revisions\/79943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}