Case filed by Ducky Bhai’s wife nominating nine NCCIA officials on charges of bribery and abuse of power
Five officials of the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), accused of bribery and abuse of power, were produced in the court of the Judicial Magistrate in Lahore on Tuesday. The charges were leveled against them by Aroob Jatoi, wife of Saad ur Rehman (Ducky Bhai).
The officials produced in court include NCCIA Additional Director Chaudhry Sarfraz, Assistant Director Shoaib Riaz, Sub-Inspector Ali Raza, Assistant Director Mujtaba Zafar and Sub-Inspector Yasir Ramzan, who are in FIA custody. The request, made by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), states that the accused should be investigated to recover millions and their remand should be granted for this purpose.
During the hearing, the judge asked senior counsel Barrister Mian Ali Ashfaq, who represented the accused in court, “What investigation have you done so far to justify the arrests?” The lawyer replied: “The investigation is ongoing, physical custody is required to complete it.” The judge reserved his decision and sentenced the accused to three days of physical custody.
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 misconduct” by a public servant, names nine officials of the NCCIA.
Apart from the named accused, the FIR also names Deputy Director (acting in charge) Zawar Ahmad, Deputy Director Operations Islamabad, Muhammad Usman, who has been missing for several days, along with Deputy Director Ayaz Khan and Salman Aziz.
According to the FIR, Rehman was taken into custody by the NCCIA in connection with the investigation of his case, which was handed over to Riaz as his investigating officer. The investigation found that a total of Rs.9 million. had been extorted from Rehman’s family through Riaz’s frontmen for his custody.
Riaz kept Rs5 million with Zawar’s cousin for safekeeping, while Rs5 million was given to Salman Aziz and Sarfraz. AD Riaz reportedly pocketed Rs2 million and also transferred $326,420 from Ducky Bhai’s Binance to his own account.
The FIR states that the named officials were involved in extortion and they distributed money among their networks. The investigation found that the NCCIA officials were in cahoots with call centers and scam callers in Islamabad, facilitating them in return for 50 percent of their ‘earnings’. Deputy directors Usman and Ayaz were directly named in this regard.
The case states that the officials were ‘picked up’ by the intelligence services over a period from August 2025 onwards, from areas including Lahore, Islamabad and Gujranwala, before being formally arrested and handed over for trial.
