FIA arrests proclaimed offender in bank fraud cases

The Federal Investigation Agency’s Corporate Crime Circle (CCC), Karachi, has arrested a man accused of involvement in embezzlement of money in the National Bank of Pakistan.

A spokesman said Khurram Sami, son of Muhammad Sami, resident of Karachi, was arrested when he attempted to flee the country. Sami was booked in three FIRs in 2014 on charges of misappropriating huge funds from the bank by granting and disbursing Saiban loans on the basis of fake and forged documents.

The accused had been at large since the registration of the cases against him and had gone underground. The FIA had got the CNIC and the passport of the accused blocked and a court had declared him a proclaimed offender.

Another fugitive, Muhammad Shafique Khan, son of Muhammad Mukhtar Khan, was said to have surrendered before a court in two cases. The accused furnished security for attending the court proceedings.

Arms seized

The paramilitary force seized a huge cache of weapons in an operation in Pak Colony. The weapons were found when Sindh Rangers’ personnel, acting on information, conducted a raid in the Gutter Baghicha area. The spokesman for the Rangers said the weapons belonged to Lyari gang war’s Purana Golimar group, and suspected that they could have been used in the near future to create unrest in the city. The seized weapons were three 12-bore shotguns, four 30- bore pistols, a 9mm pistol and bullets of different calibres.