A team of the Cybercrime Wing of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) raided the office of Bharosa App in Islamabad’s Sector G8 after the app employees’ blackmailing caused a debt-stricken man from Rawalpindi to commit suicide.
The FIA team seized the records, laptops, data devices and other equipment from the office of the loan app and launched investigations. It was also revealed during the raid that five employees of the company were foreigners.
Debt-stricken Muhammad Masood, 42, had committed suicide the other day after being pressurised and blackmailed by the app employees into returning the borrowed money with high interest.
The accused had been threatening to leak personal data from the cell phone of Muhammad Masood who narrated the story of the app employees’ blackmailing in his last message.
The grief-stricken widow of Muhammad Masood stated that her husband had committed suicide after constantly being blackmailed by the loan app employees.
An audio of the phone call of an employee of Bharosa App has also come to the fore in which the accused can be heard threatening Usama, a nephew of Muhammad Masood, of leaking personal data from the cell phone in case of the non-payment of the loan.
It is to be noted here that many other loan apps have destroyed the lives of many families, and they can cause more people to die if timely and strict action is not taken against them.
The FIA cybercrime team director had met the mother and wife of the deceased. The family had filed an application to the FIA Cybercrime Wing Rawalpindi for the registration of a case.
