May 2, 2021
A couple of months since the incident happened, the police claim to have nabbed five out of the six accused in kidnapping of foreigners for ransom
The police attribute their success in the case to the Safe City Project facilities which “played an effective role in helping us get to the bottom of the case.” Photos by Rahat Dar
Early this year, an incident of kidnapping of two foreigners for ransom, which involved cryptocurrency worth Rs 14.7 million, grabbed media headlines. A couple of months later, the Lahore police have finally succeeded in busting a six-member gang of criminals that carried out the kidnapping.
February 28, 2021
The police fail to apprehend those behind the kidnapping for ransom of two foreign nationals and the looting of cryptocurrency worth Rs 14.7 million
Recently, the provincial metropolis was witness to a strange kind of heist, in which a German and a Swiss national were robbed of bitcoin, a digital currency. The police claimed to have nabbed two culprits, including Rana Irfan Mehmood, the prime accused, but according to sources the actual circumstances and factors leading to the incident are not yet known. Also, it is said that the criminals are still at large and not a penny has been recovered. All of which puts a huge question mark on the performance of the investigation wing of the Lahore police.