FORT WORTH: Five Pakistanis were arrested Thursday for bilking the federal government out of millions of dollars by lying about their citizenship on Small Business Administration loan forms. In a news release announcing the arrests, US Attorney Jane J. Boyle said there was no sign the money was used to support terrorism.
| Just dishonest greedheads, not jihadis... |
The men — Rafiq R. Lakhani, Najma Yasim Lakhani, Zehra Akbar Ali, Shabbir Akbar Ali and Mohammed Ali were charged with misrepresenting themselves as a US citizen, Boyle said in the release Thursday evening. They made an initial court appearance Thursday before a magistrate judge in Fort Worth, and will be detained until a detention hearing, set for early next week. |