Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday said that it had received over 56,000 complaints relating to cyber crime during 2019 and registered 1086 cases against the accused.
FIA officials shared details during the meeting of the National Assembly’s standing Committee on Defense, chaired by Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA Amjad Nizai. The officials said that out of the 56,696 complaints received by the agency, 11028 were investigated and 1086 cases were registered against the accused involved in cyber crime activities.
“We have raised the number of the anti-cyber crime offices to 15 to improve action against such acts,” they said adding that currently there are over 70 million internet users in the country. They said that a majority of the cyber crime cases reported to them were related to sexual harassment, blackmailing and obscene activities online.
“We have also held a child pornography gang operating globally and one of the Pakistani accused is convicted in the case,” they said. The FIA officials said that they had also busted a gang-comprising of PTA officials- involved in activating IMEI numbers without tax payment. “An investigation in the case is ongoing,” they said.
Responding about probe into financial frauds, the officials said that they had to obtain prior approval from the court for investigations in these cases.
 on Thursday said that it had received over 56,000 complaints relating to cyber crime during 2019 and registered 1086 cases against the accused.){kind=link}