KARACHI: The Sindh government has requested the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) to block the national identity cards (CNIC) of the citizens who reportedly received fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates.
The Sindh Health Department has written a letter to NCOC seeking to block CNICs of the 36 suspects involved in the issuance of fake vaccination certificates to citizens.
It said that a FIR No.749/21 was registered against them at Aziz Bhatti Police Station in Karachi August 10 and a case was lodged against the main culprit who facilitated them for fake entries.
Around 36 people in Sindh were arrested and facing charges in fake vaccination cards scam, the health department said in a letter, requesting NCOC to bloc CNICs of all those 36 people facing trial. It urged to delete the fake entries from the NIMS data and approach NADRA to block their CNICs.
In a separate incident earlier this month, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had busted a racket involved in making fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates in the federal capital.
The cybercrime wing of the FIA arrested a man named Amjad Khan who was selling fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates for the people willing to travel abroad.
The suspect was receiving fees for the vaccination certificates online. A travel agent Shahab Khan was also apprehended upon identification of Amjad. The FIA took action on the complaints received by the NCOC regarding the issuance of fake vaccination certificates
