The officials of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) , the Crime Circle Hyderabad have registered the FIR under the relevant sections of the law against as many as 15 suspects including an official of Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) , a banker and the device holders and operators. The FIR was registered in the light of the confessional statement recorded by one Altaf Hussain Samoon, who was arrested from Tando Bago town on Friday. The FIR was registered with the officials of FIA on the complaint of one Aijaz Ahmed Zaur.Mr Zaur. The officials FIA , Crime Circle Hyderabad, stated that the consequent upon the complaint a raid was conducted at the Camp site Mono Technical College Tando Bago District Badin on Friday by a team of FIA Crime Circle Hyderabad comprising of SHO Mohammad Bux Mari, Inspector Hassan Jafri, ASI Hitesh Kumar, ASI Uzair Bashir and others.
They claimed that during the raids the BISP beneficiaries made complaints that accused BISP/ Alfa Pay retailers deducted Rs.1500/- from each beneficiary. The raiding team recorded such statements of beneficiaries. The accused persons were found available on the spot; they introduced themselves as BISP / Alfa Pay retailers each namely Altaf Samoon, Haris, Qabil, Muneer Memon, Saeed, Nim Bheel, Ghulam Mustafa, Pawan Kumar and Mumtaz Ali Babar Assistant Complaint BISP, Dileep Kumar Assistant complaint BISP and Mohammad Umar Khan Assistant Field BISP.
They stated that there were there16 devices of Alfa Pay at Camp site of Mono Technical College Tando Bago, during the raid, six Silicon thumb impressions, Register Book, Cash amount Rs.22,96,000/ were recovered as well as mobile phones from accused persons as mentioned in Seizure Memo prepared on the spot. The seized Alfa Pay devices shows that three devices issued to retailer Mumtaz Ali, Rajab Ali and Muneer Ahmed were not available at the campsite. The accused persons in connivance with BISP officials were using these devices out of campsite for illegal activities. Against the original devices the accused had kept other devices which were not functional.
The accused Altaf Hussain Samoon during the investigation disclosed that his cousin namely Dadan Samoon had got allotted different Agent IDs in the name of following persons namely Rajab Ali, Allah Dino, Ramesh Kumar, Nim Bheel and Altaf Hussain. One of these IDs registered in the name of Altaf Hussain was blocked thereafter he had got allotted another agent ID in the name of Allah Dino.
During the raid Altaf Hussain was operating a device ID registered in the name of Allah Dino using a silicon thumb impression. The accused persons further disclosed that they make payment amount Rs.150,000 on each BISP Tranche to BISP District Director Taufique Channa and Rs.150,000 to Abdul Ghafoor Chandio Alfa pay franchise owner." If one doesn't pay them a bribe they block the IDs. The seized articles recovered from the accused persons contain incriminating material confirming their involvement in the offence of embezzlement of BISP Funds through using silicon thumb impressions and unlocking of Alfa Pay devices, deduction of amount from beneficiaries," he added.
It has been established that the accused Altaf Hussain Samoon, Haris , Qabil, Muneer Ahmed Memon , Saeed Hassan, Nim Bheel, Ghulam Mustafa Pawan Kumar, Mumtaz Ali Babar, Dileep Kumar. Mohammad Umar Khan, Dadan Samoon, Abdul Ghafoor Chandio owner of Alfa Pay Franchise Tando Bago, and Taufique Ahmed Channa District Director of BISP Badin district. According to the copy of the FIR, which is available with this reporter, they are involved in the massive embezzlement in the funds of BISP in Badin district.
The act of the accused person constitutes the commission of offences punishable U/s 406,419,420, 467, 468, 471,109, 34 of Pakistan Penal Code and PPC r/w Section 5(2) PCA 1947. Hence, the instant case is being registered with the approval of competent authority against above-mentioned accused persons for committing embezzlement of BISP funds, illegal withdrawal of BISP Funds, unlocking of Alfa Pay devices. The original FIR was submitted to the Court of Special Judge Anti-Corruption (Central) Hyderabad by an Inspector Ghulam Akbar.