Pakistani national who allegedly defrauded US Postal Service of $126m arrested in Lahore: NCCIA

Dawn20 October 2026, 18:36 UTCPakistan

LAHORE: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency said on Tuesday that a prime suspect in a case involving the sale of counterfeit US postage stamps had been arrested in Lahore. The US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida had identified the suspect as a 33-year-old from Khanewal. It said in a statement last month that he was accused of operating “an unauthorised website that allegedly sold more than five million counterfeit US postage labels”, causing more than $126 million in losses to the US Postal Service NCCIA’s Lahore Zone Additional Director Atif Ameer announced his

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