Ten individuals were taken into custody by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency during distinct raids across Lahore for offenses involving online child exploitation, blackmail, fake identity documents, financial card fraud, and unlawful digital betting.
Atif Ameer, who serves as the Additional Director for the NCCIA Lahore Zone, stated that a suspect pursued minors residing overseas by employing a bogus social media profile to build trust, coerce them into making inappropriate material, and demand compliance under threat of publishing the files.
Authorities confiscated a laptop and a phone, while digital forensics are currently active. Ameer explained that the department applied a monitoring tool powered by artificial intelligence for technical reviews and secured a judicial search warrant prior to the raid.
Three law students faced arrest during a second operation for allegedly generating counterfeit Canadian identification papers and passport pictures using artificial intelligence. Officers recovered four phones, four laptops, and physical copies of fake Canadian passports. Ameer noted that these credentials helped establish bank accounts in Canada to execute digital financial scams.
Inside LDA City in Lahore, officials detained Wajid Ali Jafri and Aman Ali regarding a financial card fraud scheme, confiscating five point-of-sale machines and four phones. Authorities filed a formal case and continue operations to locate Najaf, the purported supplier of the point-of-sale devices.
A separate raid by the agency in Bahria Town, Lahore, resulted in the apprehension of four individuals connected to an unlawful digital betting operation, alongside the seizure of one desktop computer, one laptop, and six phones.
Ameer mentioned that the group operated web-based betting platforms and promotions that inflicted financial harm on United States residents. Zaeem, identified as the ringleader, has avoided capture while analysts examine information extracted from the confiscated hardware.
Reports from the previous day indicated that the NCCIA detained 1,129 individuals and restored Rs105.3 million to victims throughout the opening month under Director General Syed Ali Nasir Rizvi.
Data published in a performance summary by the agency showed that the NCCIA logged 5,176 public grievances during this timeframe, turning 4,491 of those reports into formal inquiry files.
Following completed investigations, officials filed 272 cases against individuals accused of digital offenses, backed by a countrywide enforcement sweep that yielded the arrests and the return of Rs105.3 million to affected parties.
Director General Rizvi emphasized that the agency intends to protect the digital safety of residents and maintain a strict non-leniency stance against digital offenses.
The statistics were published by an agency representative as components of the thirty-day performance update.
