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Organ scam: accounts of prime suspect`s wife frozen

By Our Staff Reporter 2017-06-01
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has f rozen the bank accounts of a lady doctor for her alleged involvement in illegal organ trade scandal in the city.

`We have included Dr Lubna, wife of prime suspect Dr Fawad Mumtaz, in theinvesugadon andfrozen the couple`s bank accounts, FIA Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan Mayo told Dawn.

He said the agency was investigating the role of Dr Lubna [in the scam].

Over a month ago, the FIA had caught red-handed Dr Fawaz Mumtaz, Dr Altamash Kharal, paramedical staf fers Umer Draz and Muhammad Shahzad during a raid at EME Society near Thokar Niaz Beg while they were performing a kidney transplant on two donors and as many Omani national recipients.

The racket has been operative in other parts of the country also.

Subsequently, the FIA also arrested Dr Zafar Javed, anaesthesist at Mayo Hospital, two agents, three accomplices of the arrested doctors.

All the suspects are in jail on judicial remand.

ARRESTED: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday arrested four people and recovered counter feit prize bonds worth millions of rupees in the city.

FIA Corporate Crime Circle Deputy Director Jamil Ahmed Khan Mayo told Dawn that a team conducted a raid near Sheikh Zayed Hospital and arrested Zulfiqar for selling f ake prize bonds of Rs15,000 denomination worth millions of rupees.

On his information three more suspects Muhammad Yousuf, Rana Nadeem and Asif were arrested. The FIA also recovered prinung machine, printing plates, rough printed bonds, underprocess bonds, printing screen and plate light machine from them.

-Staf f Reporter