SLAMABAD: Four suspected human smugglers have been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s anti-human smuggling cell in Islamabad.
According to local media reports, FIA conducted a raid on human smugglers and arrested the ringleader of their group Faisal Lateef from E-11 and Sudais Ali, Osama Khalid and Zaid Abbas from F-8 sector.
They were arrested over their involvement in illegally sending citizens to Europe en route Turkey and Iran, said FIA officials.
The officials said that more than 12 passports and several stamps were also recovered during the raid.
Earlier, the FIA claimed to have arrested the ringleader of a human trafficking gang from Gujrat and identified him as Muhammad Saleem Sunyara, involved in a Greece boat tragedy that took several lives including of Pakistanis.
The suspect used to send money to his brother Muhammad Asif Sunyara through Hundi and Hawala for sending Pakistanis abroad illegally.
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