Police have arrested three members of a five-member gang accused of opening bank accounts in the names of residents, lured by offers of financial gain, and selling them to online fraudsters.
Two other suspects are on the run, and police have launched efforts to trace and arrest them.
Investigators recovered details of hundreds of bank accounts from the mobile phones of the arrested suspects. The phones also showed that the gang had set up multiple WhatsApp groups to buy and sell the accounts.
Police said the accounts purchased by the gang were used in online fraud. A case has been registered against the suspects at Badin police station, and interrogation is continuing to establish the full extent of the network.
