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| Policemen allegedly involved in ATM scam in Lahore |
| 2018-02-03 |
| [GEO.TV] Members of the police force were allegedly involved in Automated Teller Machines fraud in the province, it emerged on Friday. Upon an affected citizen’s plea, CCPO Ameen Vaince ordered SSP Iqbal Town to investigate the matter. As per details, police personnel raided a New Year night party on Dec 31, in Sabzazar area. During the raid, money, mobile phones, ATM cards were confiscated from the attendees. Police also started the paperwork but haven't done much else after taking people into custody, however, they were later released on bail. People received their valuables after two days. Upon switching on their mobiles, they received messages from their respective banks, informing them of the amounts withdrawn from their bank accounts. During the inquiry, Nawakot police accepted that the ATM cards of people were in their custody for two days. The money was taken out from ATM machines in Khushab and Sargodha, it was learnt. Geo News also obtained the CCTV footage of the incident, in which money was taken out without using pin codes. In the CCTV footage, the people withdrawing money had concealed their faces. The ATM skimming fraud came to spotlight in the past few months, after which the Federal Investigation Agency came into action. Hundreds of citizens in Pakistain lost millions of rupees over a couple of weeks after they fell prey to the skimming fraud. Earlier, a district court in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... sentenced two Chinese nationals to one-year imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs50,000 each over their involvement in the scam. According to the FIA, the suspects were involved in manipulating ATM machines to take out money. |
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