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KARACHI:
A local court sent eight persons, including the chief executive officer (CEO) of a software company, on a seven-day physical remand on Thursday in a case of money laundering and fraud.
The accused have been remanded in the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) custody.
The FIA had earlier arrested the software company CEO, Burhan Mirza, and booked him for money laundering, forgery, harassment, phishing, extortion, fraud and other cybercrimes. Seven others, including the company’s owner, Junaid Mansoor and head of the business unit Umair Siddique, were also nominated in the FIR registered on behalf of state at a cybercrime reporting centre.
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The FIA has filed an FIR against Digitonics, a software house operating in Karachi, for forgery and cheating.
The FIR, filed on behalf of the State at the Cyber Crime Reporting Centre, accuses the company of forgery, money laundering, cheating, and a number of other crimes.
It is registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016:
Section 13 electronic forgerySection 14 electronic fraud Section 16 unauthorised use of identity information Section 20 offences against the dignity of a natural personSection 26 spoofing