Lahore court grants NCCIA further two-day remand of suspects over US postage stamp fraud
LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Tuesday granted the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) a further two-day physical remand of two suspects in a Rs35 billion fraud involving the online sale of counterfeit US postage stamps. The prime suspect, identified as a 33-year-old resident of Khanewal, had been charged by a Florida jury with defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) of $126 million, the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida said on Sept 28. The Lahore NCCIA announced the prime suspect’s arrest in late October, and he was sent on a five-day physica