Overview
- The new mandate directs CCD to run targeted operations to dismantle rings that use phones, computers and digital platforms to defraud the public.
- Officials report heavy losses for salaried workers, small traders and beneficiaries of welfare programmes, including BISP recipients.
- Provincial authorities intend to file cases to confiscate properties and other assets valued in the billions of rupees.
- Investigators have linked some of these networks to short-term kidnappings for ransom, with many incidents said to go unregistered.
- The decision leverages CCD’s recent successes against major syndicates and drug traffickers as proof of capacity.