Pakistan: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed on Friday to have traced and arrested a “key financial handler” of the Libya-based main suspect running the network involved in illegally sending Pakistanis abroad, who later went missing in the recent boat capsize incident off Italy, recovering around Rs10 million from him.

Besides, at least five different cases have also been lodged in three different police stations of FIA Gujranwala Zone, against the human traffickers involved in sending the missing Pakistanis abroad.

A senior FIA official told Dawn that the main suspect has been identified as an agent, Luqman, alias Hakeem, who belongs to Phalia tehsil of Mandi Bahauddin district. The suspect had been based in Libya for the last couple of years, he added.

He claimed the entire financial and logistic network of that human trafficker had been unearthed and more arrests of his local operatives were expected in a few days in GUJRAT