By Tasawwar Abbas
LAHORE (TheSportsNext) July 31, 2012: Amid a
huge uproar in the British media, a Pakistani court released four employees of
National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and Lahore Passport Office
on Tuesday after the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) found no evidence
against them.
The four people, who were accused of their alleged
involvement in the infamous London 2012 Olympics Visa Scam, were released by a magisterial
court in Lahore after the FIA probe found them innocent.
The FIA had produced the four accused named Wasif and Asif,
employees of Nadra, and Fahim and Ghaffar, Lahore Passport Office workers in
the magisterial court on Monday.
As per the investigations carried out by the FIA, reporter
of England-based newspaper The Sun, Muhammad Ali Asad, had cheated Nadra and
Passport Office. They added that the very basis of the whole scam was Ali
Asad’s new identity card which he had renewed for it expiration after 10 years
time and had changed his picture it as well.
The
FIA officials termed the whole exercise as a bid to defame Pakistan.
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