FIA Immigration foils human trafficking bid at Karachi airport

KARACHI: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Immigration has foiled an attempt of human trafficking at Jinnah International Airport Karachi and arrested four persons including a travel agent who was reportedly connected with an Indian agent in Azerbaijan.

In the statement issued by FIA, it was stated that the conspiracy to go to Europe illegally from Karachi Airport was exposed and 4 passengers including the agent were arrested.

The arrested accused are Haseeb Ahmed, Qaiser Ahmed, Usman Ali and agent Abdul Shakoor. The  accused belong to different areas of Faisalabad, Chiniot, Gujranwala and Nankana Sahib.

Human smuggler Abdul Shakoor made contracts of Rs 1.4 million per person in the name of sending other suspects to Poland. The accused also gave an advance of Rs 250,000 per person to the agent, the accused had to go to Poland from Azerbaijan illegally.

According to the prelimin investigation, important evidence has been recovered from the mobile phone of the human trafficker Abdul Shakur. The accused Abdul Shakoor was in contact with the Indian agent.

According to FIA, an Indian agent named Gautam Sharma residing in Azerbaijan was supposed to send the accused from Azerbaijan to Poland illegally.

The accused have been transferred to Anti-Human Trafficking Circle Karachi for further investigation.