WORLD NEWS | Pakistan: Customs intelligence unit raids BOL News headquarters in Karachi

Karachi [Pakistan]March 14 (ANI): Karachi Customs Intelligence and Investigation Agency conducted a raid on BOL News headquarters on Monday following a court order.

During the operation, the Board of Directors team, accompanied by BOL News representatives, compiled a list of inventory items including DSNG, studio equipment, video cameras, camera control units, monitors and other imported equipment in the building, Tribune reported.

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The search was carried out after a district and session judge issued a search warrant.

According to a source familiar with the matter, the court issued the order based on suspicions that non-custom paid media equipment existed in BOL News’ offices.

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After executing the search warrant, customs officials were ordered to conduct a thorough search of all rooms and areas in the building and prepare a list of any non-custom paid devices found during the search, the Tribune reported.

They were also ordered by law to withhold any such equipment. During the search, officers also took video and photos of the equipment in accordance with a court order.

Devices found to be illegal will be confiscated and their market value and tariffs will be assessed by the authorities, according to sources, the Tribune reported.

Last week, the FIA ​​arrested Axact and BOL TV CEO Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh at Islamabad airport on charges of bribing a former judge to be acquitted in a bogus degree case.

Sheikh was arrested shortly after arriving in Islamabad by plane from Karachi.

The BOL TV CEO has been charged with bribing Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Pervez-ul-Qadir Memon to obtain a favorable verdict in the Axact fake degree case, The Tribune reported.

The FIA ​​arrested Axact’s chief executive in 2015 after investigators uncovered hundreds of thousands of fake degrees and student IDs from the company’s secretive offices in Karachi.

Television footage of the FIA ​​raid on Axact’s offices in Karachi in 2015 showed piles of degree templates from different universities in the rooms of the building.

A New York Times report revealed that Axact was running a multimillion-dollar global empire of fake diplomas from secret offices, The Tribune reported.

A multi-million dollar money laundering case was also filed against Shaikh and Axact management, but the CEO was later acquitted by the now disgraced judge Pervez-ul-Qadir Memon. (Arnie)

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