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07-01-2016, 04:43 AM
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore has widened the scope in a Rs2 billion ‘online’ scam in which more than 5,000 people were cheated.
The FIA investigators have got transferred to Lahore a case and over 150 complaints lodged in Faisalabad so that investigation could be done under one roof. The step was taken after FIA Lahore arrested the prime accused Liaquat Ali from Sialkot in April 2016.
The FIA had also taken into custody the laptops and mobile phones, recovered from the accused, and had sent them for forensic examination. A team of National Response Centre For Cyber Crime (NR3C) of the FIA Lahore registered an FIR against Liaquat and his other nine accomplices. The accused are on bail these days.
A senior FIA official, seeking a**nymity, told The News that they have received over 200 complaints against the accused. Majority of the victims, he said, belonged to Faisalabad whereas over 50 victims have also approached the FIA Lahore for registration of cases against the culprits. He said around 5,000 have been deprived of millions of rupees so far.
On the other hand, it is also learnt that the FIA investigators have approached their high-ups in Islamabad, asking them to take up the matter with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as the number of affected people was in thousands and the Bureau should be involved in the recovery of the looted amount.
As it is a matter of cheating public at large, NAB should be contacted for recovery purposes whereas the FIA should continue its investigation for criminal charges, an FIA official, privy to the developments, said.
‘E2click’ fraud falls under electronic fraud of PECO 2009, which has lapsed since 2010. The FIA NR3C has the power to investigate the matters only relate to telecommunication laws. These electronic frauds don’t fall under Section 36/37 of Electronic Transaction Ordinance (ETO) 2002, the official said, adding that such type of activity was simply a kind of cheating in which cheater used web address in order to attract the public. NAB, under Section 9, has the power to investigate the matters in which cheating at large scale is involved. The victims are in a large number and the looted money is also in millions of rupees.
“Islamabad High Court has already given his view in a case of FIA NR3C Rawalpindi that this type of fraud doesn’t come under telecommunication laws,” he added. To a**ther question, he said more FIRs would be registered against the accused soon. Describing modus operandi, an investigator of the FIA told this correspondent that the accused were involved in Rs2 billion fraud which they committed by setting up a website - e2click.com - through which they asked people to get registered with them against certain amount and earn profits (by posting and clicking advertisement).
He said the managers of the e2click.com won confidence of their clients by giving away a few thousands rupees in profit. “Once they start believing that the website is genuine they invest more,” he added. He said the website remained operated from June till **vember 2015.
To a question, he said they were collecting details of bank accounts of the accused persons. Initially, he said they had ** idea of the total fraud but it was revealed during the investigation that the scam is of billions of rupees. Some of the affected people invested up to over Rs10 million to make easy money online, he claimed.
Reportedly, Liaquat Ali and Ahsan Raza, along with their family members had launched the website business in Faisalabad in June 2015 and closed it in **vember the same year.
When contacted, NAB spokesman Nawazish Ali told that FIA have **t made any contact with NAB on the matter so far. “If the FIA approached us, we will respond as per law,” he added.
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The FIA investigators have got transferred to Lahore a case and over 150 complaints lodged in Faisalabad so that investigation could be done under one roof. The step was taken after FIA Lahore arrested the prime accused Liaquat Ali from Sialkot in April 2016.
The FIA had also taken into custody the laptops and mobile phones, recovered from the accused, and had sent them for forensic examination. A team of National Response Centre For Cyber Crime (NR3C) of the FIA Lahore registered an FIR against Liaquat and his other nine accomplices. The accused are on bail these days.
A senior FIA official, seeking a**nymity, told The News that they have received over 200 complaints against the accused. Majority of the victims, he said, belonged to Faisalabad whereas over 50 victims have also approached the FIA Lahore for registration of cases against the culprits. He said around 5,000 have been deprived of millions of rupees so far.
On the other hand, it is also learnt that the FIA investigators have approached their high-ups in Islamabad, asking them to take up the matter with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as the number of affected people was in thousands and the Bureau should be involved in the recovery of the looted amount.
As it is a matter of cheating public at large, NAB should be contacted for recovery purposes whereas the FIA should continue its investigation for criminal charges, an FIA official, privy to the developments, said.
‘E2click’ fraud falls under electronic fraud of PECO 2009, which has lapsed since 2010. The FIA NR3C has the power to investigate the matters only relate to telecommunication laws. These electronic frauds don’t fall under Section 36/37 of Electronic Transaction Ordinance (ETO) 2002, the official said, adding that such type of activity was simply a kind of cheating in which cheater used web address in order to attract the public. NAB, under Section 9, has the power to investigate the matters in which cheating at large scale is involved. The victims are in a large number and the looted money is also in millions of rupees.
“Islamabad High Court has already given his view in a case of FIA NR3C Rawalpindi that this type of fraud doesn’t come under telecommunication laws,” he added. To a**ther question, he said more FIRs would be registered against the accused soon. Describing modus operandi, an investigator of the FIA told this correspondent that the accused were involved in Rs2 billion fraud which they committed by setting up a website - e2click.com - through which they asked people to get registered with them against certain amount and earn profits (by posting and clicking advertisement).
He said the managers of the e2click.com won confidence of their clients by giving away a few thousands rupees in profit. “Once they start believing that the website is genuine they invest more,” he added. He said the website remained operated from June till **vember 2015.
To a question, he said they were collecting details of bank accounts of the accused persons. Initially, he said they had ** idea of the total fraud but it was revealed during the investigation that the scam is of billions of rupees. Some of the affected people invested up to over Rs10 million to make easy money online, he claimed.
Reportedly, Liaquat Ali and Ahsan Raza, along with their family members had launched the website business in Faisalabad in June 2015 and closed it in **vember the same year.
When contacted, NAB spokesman Nawazish Ali told that FIA have **t made any contact with NAB on the matter so far. “If the FIA approached us, we will respond as per law,” he added.
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