ADاشتہار / AdvertisementGoogle Ad
FIA Offloads Man Flying to Germany on Fake VisaPakistan
The FIA offloaded a Chiniot resident at Lahore airport on Monday after his visit visa to Germany, allegedly bought for AED 42,000, turned out to be fake.
Share:
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) offloaded a passenger at Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport on Monday after discovering that he was travelling to Germany on a fake visit visa, 24News TV channel reported.
The passenger, Syed Mohammad Aun Abbas, is a resident of Chiniot. He was booked on Etihad flight EY-285 and was preparing to fly to Germany when FIA officials stopped him at the airport and checked his travel documents. During the checking, his visit visa was found to be fake.
ADاشتہار / AdvertisementGoogle Ad
According to the report, the fake visa had been provided by a man named Sandus, an Indian national living in the United Arab Emirates. The visa was allegedly arranged against a payment of AED 42,000. The FIA team arrested the passenger on the spot and shifted him to the Anti-Human Trafficking Circle for further investigation and action.
The case highlights the networks that prey on people seeking to travel abroad for work or a better life. Agents and middlemen often charge large sums of money and promise genuine visas, only to hand over forged documents that are detected at the airport, leaving the traveller stranded, arrested and out of pocket.
Airport immigration checks are designed to catch such fraud before a passenger boards a flight. Airlines and immigration authorities verify visas against the records of the destination country, and a fake visa is usually detected during this process. Travellers caught with forged documents can face arrest, prosecution and a ban on future travel.
The FIA’s Anti-Human Trafficking Circle investigates cases involving fake visas, forged documents and illegal migration. Officials say such rackets operate across borders, with agents in one country arranging documents through contacts in another, making the networks difficult to trace.
The investigation into this case is under way, and further action will follow once the FIA completes its inquiries into how the fake visa was arranged and whether others were involved in the racket.
Officials advise anyone planning to travel abroad to apply through official channels and verify their visa with the relevant embassy before paying any agent, since a fake visa can lead to arrest and a travel ban.
Related Coverage
