KARACHI: A team of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrived at the Sindh High Court to arrest Axact CEO Shoaib Sheikh after the court set aside his acquittal in a fake degrees case.
A division bench of the high court granted an appeal filed by FIA through which it challenged his acquittal in the case.
It directed a sessions court to conclude the trail proceedings in the case within a period of three months and frame charges against the accused persons at the earliest.
The bench directed all the accused persons to be in attendance in the trial court on March 03.
As soon as the court announced its verdict, a FIA team reached the court to arrest the Axact CEO.
At one point, when he stepped out of the court building, the team surrounded his vehicle to arrest him. He went back into a courtroom to avoid being caught.
His counsel said the court has not passed any directives for the arrest of his client.
However, the FIA team maintained that since the high court has overturned his acquittal, he would be arrested.
Back in 2015, FIA filed a case against the Axact CEO and others when the fake degrees scandal surfaced.
The company was accused of selling fake diplomas and online degrees through fictitious schools, earning tens of millions of dollars annually.
Following the scandal, the offices of the Axact were sealed, its CEO and other officials arrested and a probe was launched into the matter.
Of late, the apex court took cognizance of the scandal days after BBC Radio 4 revealed that thousands of UK citizens bought fake degrees from the “diploma mill” in Pakistan.
More than 3,000 fake Axact qualifications were sold to UK-based buyers in 2013 and 2014, including master’s degrees, doctorates and PhDs, it said.
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