MULTAN: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday busted a gang allegedly involved in activating mobile SIMs by using fake fingerprints.
According to sources, on a tip-off, an FIA team conducted a targeted raid at a house in Sargodha and apprehended the three accused allegedly involved in activating SIMs through illegal means.
The FIA team recovered a laptop, mobile SIMs and fingerprints from their possession, sources from the agency said. The FIA officials disclosed that the accused also used fingerprints to activate fake mobile accounts.
Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing had busted a large network operating an international pornographic website from Gujranwala Narowal, arresting one suspect of the gang.
According to sources, the officials of FIA had conducted a raid in Narowal and arrest a man allegedly involved in child pornography.
The spokesman for the FIA said the officials conducted the raid after the information on the accused was shared with the Pakistani authorities by the Brazilian government.
After getting information on the accused from Interpol, the FIA took prompt action and arrested the man allegedly involved in child pornography, he had added.
During the raid the FIA team recovered more than 6,000 child pornography videos from his possession, the spokesman said, adding that the laptop of the accused and other devices have been sent to a forensic lab for examination.
