The Pakistan security officials have been unable to decode the gadgets and devices seized from FBI agent detained on May 5 from an airport in the country for carrying bullets.
Islamabad, May 8/Nationalturk –Pakistan security officials have failed to decode the gadgets and devices found from FBI agent (US citizen) detained at an airport in port city of Karachi for carrying bullets few days back.
Pakistani security officials found 15 bullets and a magazine in the bag of FBI agent Joel Cox in Karachi airport on May 5 evening. He was to travel from Karachi to Pakistani capital Islamabad.
Media reports said Pakistani security officials have been unable to decode gadgets and equipments seized from the FBI agent. Pen cameras, locator gadget and other equipments were seized from the FBI agents.
Cox had come to Pakistan with a 90-day long visit visa on a passport made five months ago.
‘Spy cameras, other gadgets recovered from FBI agent’
A top security official, pleading anonymity, said spy cameras, devices and gadgets found from FBI agent were being examined by the forensic team.
“It may take time for them to reach the conclusion as the process is quite delicate and lengthy. It will definitely help ascertain the motive of the suspect’s visit to Pakistan,” he said.
The official said suspect was not giving password to decode the gadgets. “An object or two were still there of which passwords had not been shared by the suspect”.
FBI agent sent to police custody till May 10
A judicial magistrate has remanded the FBI agent to police custody till May 10.
The Pakistani security officials learnt that Cox was an FBI agent from media reports quoting US officials.
The Washington Post, quoting officials in Washington, said the suspect, who is assigned to the FBI Miami Field Office, was in Pakistan on a temporary duty. The newspaper also quoted the father of the suspect, who confirmed his son’s association with FBI, but said he was scheduled to be in Pakistan for about three months for ‘office-type work’ with ‘a non-FBI-type’ entity.
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