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Pakistani authorities acting on intelligence arrested a man Tuesday accused of running an online counterfeit postage operation that U.S. prosecutors say caused more than $126 million in losses to the U.S. Postal Service, Pakistan’s cybercrime investigation agency said. Faheem Akram, 33, was arrested after a weekslong search involving raids across several parts of the country, a senior official at the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency, Atif Ameer, told reporters. Akram, a resident of Khanewal in eastern Punjab province, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the district said in...

A Pakistani man has been indicted in South Florida for operating a counterfeit U.S. postage label scheme that caused over $126 million in losses to the U.S. Postal Service, federal prosecutors said. Faheem Akram, 33, of Khanewal, Pakistan, is charged with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to make and sell counterfeit postage stamps, five counts of making and selling counterfeit postage stamp labels, and four counts of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida said Monday. The indictment returned by a federal grand jury is a result of an investigation...