Mastermind of bank robbery in Miranshah arrested

MIRANSHAH: Security forces have arrested the mastermind of the gang involved in looking at a bank in Miranshah, ARY News reported on Monday.

As per details, a raid was conducted in Miranshah, North Waziristan and the mastermind Naseer Ullah was arrested by the intelligence agencies.

He revealed that he was given the responsibility of providing weapons and vehicles for looting banks.

The Miranshah police had earlier conducted a raid against the robbers on March 20 but they managed to flee the spot of the incident. On March 21 Naseer Ullah surrendered to the police and returned Rs 3.95 million.

The police have so far recovered Rs 5.42 million out of the total Rs 7.2 million.

Earlier, the cyber-crime branch of the Federal Investigation Agency in a raid arrested six members of a fraud gang.

The accused were depriving citizens of their finances by introducing themselves as bank employees to get access to their personal data. “They transferred Rs. 19,58,500 from the bank account of the complainant,” FIA Rawalpindi spokesperson said.

“Arrested accused have been named as Farooq, Umar Usman, Noman, Irfan, Aslam and Adnan,” FIA stated.

“They were using modern technology to call their victims,” FIA said.

“The FIA has recovered seven mobile phones from the accused and a case has been registered under the PECA Act,” the spokesperson added.