{"id":332839,"date":"2026-03-14T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/?p=332839"},"modified":"2026-03-14T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T05:55:41","slug":"islamabad-sapeher-times-fia-arrests-suspect-in-rs6-8-million-new-zealand-visa-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/?p=332839","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad (Sapeher Times) FIA arrests suspect in Rs6.8 million New Zealand visa fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, March 13,2026 (Sapeher Times): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Islamabad Zone has arrested a suspect allegedly involved in visa fraud and illegal emigration after he reportedly extorted millions of rupees from a citizen on the promise of arranging a work visa for New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the case was registered as FIR No. 10\/2026 dated February 9, 2026, under Sections 18 and 22 of the Emigration Ordinance, 1979, read with Section 489-F of the Pakistan Penal Code, at the FIA Anti-Human Trafficking Circle (AHTC) Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n<p>The arrested suspect has been identified as Attiq Ahmad, son of Iqbal Ahmad. Authorities traced and apprehended the accused on March 12.<\/p>\n<p>FIA officials said the suspect allegedly extorted Rs6.8 million from the complainant on the pretext of arranging a New Zealand work visa for the complainant\u2019s son, Jibral Ahmad. However, the accused neither secured the promised visa nor returned the money.<\/p>\n<p>After completing the required legal formalities, the FIA arrested the suspect and will produce him before the court to seek physical remand for further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said further investigation into the matter is underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, March 13,2026 (Sapeher Times): The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Islamabad Zone has arrested a suspect allegedly involved in visa fraud and illegal emigration after he reportedly extorted millions of rupees from a citizen on the promise of arranging a work visa for New Zealand. According to officials, the case was registered as FIR No. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":332840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-63","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332841,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332839\/revisions\/332841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/332840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapeher.dailysapehertimes.com.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}