Names of licence scandal accused on stop-list
FIA sends details of around 50 people including CAA officials and pilots to all airports, crossings
Civil Aviation Authority is not conducting the privatisation transaction to hand over three international airports. PHOTO: FILE
RAWALPINDI:
Authorities have placed names of over 45 people including officials of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) licensing branch and pilots – facing inquiries over fake flying licenses – on the stop-list in order to prevent them from fleeing Pakistan.
Relevant officials at all airports and border crossings in the country are instructed to detain such people if they try to leave the country and also to inform the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Karachi about it.
FIA apprehends CAA high-ups, pilot in fake licenses fiasco
The corporate crime cell registers four cases in Karachi naming six aviation officers and two pilots
FIA HQ Islamabad. PHOTO: FILE
KARACHI:
Pakistan s top investigation agency on Friday arrested six people for their alleged involvement in a scandal involving fraudulently obtained pilots licences that came to light after a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) jet crashed last year, officials said. Five Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) officials and a pilot have been arrested, the Federal Investigation Agency said in a statement, adding that at least 40 pilots and eight officials from the CAA s licence branch have been named in three cases registered by the agency s corporate crime wing.
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