Afghan citizen who cheated local Muslim pilgrims arrested in Shymkent

An Afghan citizen suspected of cheating in relation with organising the Hadj (Muslim pilgrimage) has been arrested in Shymkent, interior department of South Kazakhstan region has informed KZ-today.

Mirsais Dadval, 36, citizen of Afghanistan, was introducing himself as a director of a Pakistani firm and promising to all wishing persons to organise the Hadj. He was paid $700 and more for his services. So far eight persons whom he cheated for more than $10 thousand have applied to police. The police do not rule out that the number of his victims is much bigger.

During the investigation it has been discovered that last January M. Dadval was an intermediary in a South Kazakhstani tourist firm "Ordabasy-NJ" that sent 105 persons to Mecca for the Hadj. He had to provide the flight: to book a plane for Karachi in Kazakhstan and to provide another plane from Karachi to Djiddah. However M. Dadval paid only $28 thousand for the booking of the Kazakhstani plane and then disappeared with the rest of the money. Then the pilgrims paid $1,700 each.

Currently M. Dadval is in preliminary detention. A case as per article 177 of the Criminal Code of RK "Fraud" has been filed.