Swindling in UNHCR's name, court rejects bail plea.

Senior Civil Judge Mahmood Haroon Saturday rejected the bail plea of an accused involved in depriving people of millions of dollars using the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) name and adjourned the case till July 19.

The accused fooled masses into investing in an Internet lottery and also showed a fake agreement on the letter pad of the UNHCR, signed by its Islamabad engineer general that bore name of John Cosmos as a witness.

A First Information Report (FIR) vide 11/09 dated 01-04-2009 was registered against Javedur Rehman, a resident of National Housing Scheme 1, Rawalpindi, under section 7, 8, 9, 15, 19 and 20 of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance (PECO) 2007 r/w36, 37 of Electronic Transaction Ordinance (ETO) 2002. The complainant Janas Khan, Peshawar, had lodged the complaint with FIA Crime Circle.

According to FIA, Janas Khan was defrauded in the name of Internet lottery amounting to $1.3 million. 'Hanson Terence' persuaded him through e-mail messages sent and an agreement purportedly signed by 'Teddy Akkson' as UNHCR Islamabad Engineer General, and John Cosmos as a witness on apparently fake letterhead of UNHCR, Islamabad. The accused demanded Khan to pay a 7.5% of the total that was $1.3 Million.

Enticed Khan transferred Rs183,000- to the bank account of Maryam Faqir (Bank, Cress Bank, Islamabad) from Peshawar Cantonment Cress Bank Branch through online banking. Khan allegedly also transferred through online banking Rs.1,399,125 to the bank account of Rehman, Faisal Bank, Blue Area, Branch from Peshawar Cantonment Faisal Bank Branch, paid in cash US $ 20,000 to person namely John Cosmos and sent an amount of 815,29 Pounds and $ 2,700 to Hanson Terence through Western Union.

On Saturday defense counsel of accused filed an application of bail after arrest, in which he stated that his client was involved in the Internet lottery fraud and defrauding people of millions of dollars using UNHCR name. But, the counsel claimed, the fact is that there are many lottery emails on the Internet and no one knows who is running these lotteries. He claimed the FIA could not prove that his client used UNHRC name.

Later FIA enquiry found that the account of Maryam Faqir was operated by Javed-ur-Rehman and she knew nothing about the transactions made in her account. Rehman made unauthorized access to bank account of Maryam and to the confidential information of her bank account and got transferred the money into his account in the same bank.

Accordingly, the competent court issued arrest warrants u/s 87 CrPC. FIA arrested Rehman on 24-05-2011.

On Saturday Senior Civil Judge Mahmood Haroon rejected the bail plea of accused and adjourned the case till July 19.ECe

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