Pakistani national charged with defrauding US Postal Service of $126m

A Pakistani national has been charged with defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) of $125 million by selling counterfeit postage labels online, it emerged on Friday. According to a press release by the US Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Florida, issued on Monday on the website of the Department of Justice (DOJ), a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a Pakistani national, a 33-year-old from Khanewal, with operating “an unauthorised website that allegedly sold more than five million counterfeit US postage labels”. According to court records, these were…