A suspect from Faisalabad has been successfully detained by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for allegedly indulging in cybercrime activities to defraud people of their money.
The Cyber Crime Circle in Islamabad detained Akif Nadeem on suspicion of giving phony Ministry of Interior permits for tinted or black glass covers for vehicles, according to information provided by an FIA official. He is involved in issuing phony interior ministry licenses to allow vehicles to have tinted or black glass covers. According to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PECA) Act, a case has been filed against the suspect, and more investigation is under progress, the official said.
The FIA began a nationwide crackdown on child pornographers and activists on the dark web who engage in sexual harassment earlier this month. The FIA found 28 blackmailers and 33 gangsters who were involved in child pornography. 52 human traffickers were detained nationwide during that operation by the Anti-Human Traffic Cell (AHTC), and the names of the three most sought traffickers were added to the Red List. The FIA also discovered a fresh scam involving the mass purchase of US dollars using Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs) from unwary citizens. Any electronic forgery that involves a crucial infrastructure’s information system or data is punishable by up to seven years in prison, a fine of up to five million rupees, or a combination of the two.
Whoever tampers with or uses any information system, device, or data to cause harm to the general public or any individual, to make any illegitimate claim or title, compelling any individual to part with property or enter into any express or implied contract, to commit fraud by any input, alteration, deletion, or suppression of data, resulting in unauthentic data with the intention that it be considered or acted upon for legal purposes, whether he does so or not, he will be punished with either type of imprisonment for a time up to three years, with a fine up to 250 000 rupees, or with both. Anyone who copies or otherwise sends or causes to be transmitted any critical infrastructure data without authority and with malicious intent faces a sentence of up to five years in jail, a fine of up to five million rupees, or both.
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