Federal Investigation Agency’s cyber crime unit FIA arrest Chairman Axact Sheikh Shoaib Malik
ISLAMABAD: By; Asghar Ali Mubarak
A team of the Federal Investigation Agency’s cyber crime unit FIA arrest Chairman Axact Sheikh Shoaib Malik from Karachi office and collected manuals, records ,computers as evidence in the ongoing investigation of a global fake degrees scam late night.
The Sind high court already rejected the protected/ pre-arrest application of Axact Chairman Shoaib sheikh on last Monday.. Pakistan officially sought US Intelligence Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation’s help in probing Ax act’s multi-million dollar fake degree scandal.Based on the developments to date in the software company’s scandal, Interior Ministry officials said they have written a letter to the FBI.
“. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar has allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to seek assistance of foreign experts to probe this scandal. The government decided on Saturday to enlist the help of FBI and Interpol in investigating the multimillion-dollar fake degrees scam run worldwide by Axact.Speaking at a news conference, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar had said they have found ‘substantive evidence’ on the ‘illegal operations’ of Axact and that the government would soon contact FBI and Interpol.“In light of the developments that have come through in the FIA inquiry, we have decided to write to the FBI for legal assistance,” he added. Earlier
