Case filed by Ducky Bhai’s wife, naming nine NCCIA officials, on charges of bribery and abuse of authority.
Five officials of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), accused of bribery and abuse of power, appeared before the Lahore judicial magistrate’s court on Tuesday. The charges were filed against them by Aroob Jatoi, wife of Saad ur Rehman (Ducky Bhai).
The officials, produced before the court, include NCCIA additional director Chaudhry Sarfraz, deputy director Shoaib Riaz, sub-inspector Ali Raza, deputy director Mujtaba Zafar and sub-inspector Yasir Ramzan, who are in FIA custody. The application, filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), states that the accused should be investigated to recover millions and that their remand should be granted for this purpose.
During the hearing, the magistrate asked senior lawyer Barrister Mian Ali Ashfaq, who represented the accused in court: “What investigation have you done so far to justify the arrests?” The lawyer responded: “The investigation is ongoing, physical preventive detention is required to complete it.” The magistrate reserved his decision and granted the accused physical preventive detention for three days.
The FIR, filed on Monday under Sections 109 and 161 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), read with Section 5(2)47 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA), 1947, which defines “criminal conduct” of a public servant, names nine NCCIA officials.
Apart from the named accused, the FIR also names Deputy Director (Acting In-Charge) Zawar Ahmad, Deputy Director Islamabad Operations Muhammad Usman, who have been missing for several days, along with Deputy Director Ayaz Khan and Salman Aziz.
According to the FIR, Rehman was detained by the NCCIA in connection with the investigation of his case handed over to Riaz as its investigating officer. The investigation found that a total of Rs 9 million had been extorted from Rehman’s family, through Riaz’s front men, for his judicial remand.
Riaz kept Rs 5 million with Zawar’s cousin for safekeeping, while Rs 5 million was given to Salman Aziz and Sarfraz. AD Riaz reportedly pocketed Rs 2 crore and also transferred $326,420 from Ducky Bhai’s Binance to his own account.
The FIR claims that the named officials were involved in extortion and distributed money among their network. The investigation found that NCCIA officials were in cahoots with call centers and fraudsters in Islamabad, facilitating them in exchange for 50 per cent of their “profits”. In this regard, deputy directors Usman and Ayaz were directly appointed.
The case claims that the officials were “detained” by intelligence agencies for a period from August 2025 onwards, in areas such as Lahore, Islamabad and Gujranwala, before being formally arrested and handed over for legal process.
