'Sextortion' accused also hacked Snapchat accounts of two other US women – Dawn

PESHAWAR: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday said that the initial investigation had revealed that the young man from Peshawar, who was arrested on the complaint of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about the coercion of a US-based minor girl into ‘sextortion’ (webcam blackmail), had hacked the Snapchat accounts of two other US women as well. On Wednesday night, the FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing had arrested Anas Farooq in Phase VI area of Hayatabad neighbourhood of the provincial capital on the charges of child pornography and criminal intimidation. His father was also taken into custody, but the agency freed him on the production of a bail bond. Deputy director of the FIA Cyber Crime Wing Tahir Khan told a news conference here that a local court had granted the physical remand of the accused to the agency for two days to probe the hacking and blackmailing charges. He said the FIA produced the accused before magistrate Mohammad Farooq, who remanded him in custody. The official said that the agency had sought 10 days physical remand of the accused. Peshawar court grants his two-day physical remand to FIA He said that the accused had revealed during the investigation that…
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