Peshawar: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Anti-Corruption Circle Peshawar, while taking action against alleged bribery and illegal collections in the Protector of Emigrants Office Peshawar, arrested the director of the office, a peon and two agents, while another agent has been named in the case.
According to the FIA FIR, Sub-Inspector Fahadullah Khan
had received information from confidential sources that huge amounts of money
were being collected as bribes from citizens going abroad for employment,
especially those going to Kyrgyzstan, during the process of protection of their
work agreements at the Protector Office Peshawar. The information was said to
be that agent Azizur Rehman delivers this money to the officials of the
Protector Office, who approve and process their cases.
Upon receiving the information, a special team of the FIA
was formed with the permission of the competent authority, which included SHO
Talha Zaman, Inspector Irfanullah, Sub-Inspector Arif, Sub-Inspector Ali, Sub-Inspector
Zafar Iqbal, ASI Tahir Mehmood, ASI Ilyas and Head Constable Asif. The team
monitored the GT Road near Total Parko, Sikandar Town.
According to the FIA, a white Toyota Corolla and a black
Honda Civic were parked at the scene. The officials observed that a person got
out of the Honda Civic and sat in the Corolla, collected something from there
and returned to his vehicle. After this, the FIA team stopped both vehicles
and took all the people into custody.
During the investigation, the people in the white Corolla
identified themselves as Aziz ur Rahman and Khizer Ali, while the people in the
Honda Civic identified themselves as Farrukh Jamal Siddiqui and Muhammad
Hakeem.
According to the FIR, during initial interrogation, Agent Aziz
ur Rehman confessed that he works as an agent for the Protector’s Office and
that he had come to process the cases of 15 passengers going to Kyrgyzstan that
day. He said that he received Rs70,000 per passenger from another agent, Yasir,
out of which he used to pay Rs50,000 per case as a bribe to two Protector’s
Office officials, Farrukh Jamal Siddiqui and Khizer Ali. He also said that he
had been bringing similar cases in the past and paying illegal amounts to the
officials concerned.
According to the FIA, after this revelation, a search was
conducted on all the persons, during which Rs600,000 in cash and a mobile phone
were recovered from Farrukh Jamal Siddiqui’s possession. During interrogation,
Farrukh Jamal Siddiqui confessed that he is posted as a director in the Protector
of Emigrants’ Office, Peshawar, and that he had received illegal money from
Agent Azizur Rehman.
Similarly, Rs 100,000 in cash and a mobile phone were
recovered from the possession of Khizer Ali, who is posted as a peon in the
Protector’s Office. According to the FIR, he also confessed to accepting a
bribe from the agent.
On the other hand, Rs 65,000 in cash and a mobile phone were
recovered from the possession of Agent Aziz-ur-Rehman. According to the FIA,
none of the arrested accused could provide a satisfactory explanation for the
recovered amount, and all the cash and mobile phones were seized and
confiscated.
The FIA has registered a case against the accused under
Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1947 and Sections 409, 420,
161, 162 and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The accused arrested in the case include Agent
Aziz-ur-Rehman, Director of the Protector of Emigrants’ Office Peshawar Farrukh
Jamal Siddiqui, peons Khizer Ali and Muhammad Hakeem, while Agent Yasir has also
been named in the case. According to the FIA, the role of other possible
involved individuals will be determined during the investigation.
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