Pakistani man pleads guilty in US human smuggling case involving fake film companies

A Pakistani national has pleaded guilty in a US court to leading a years-long international human smuggling operation that used fake film production companies to bring Pakistani nationals illegally into the country, the US Department of Justice said in a statement on Friday.For all the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Abbas Ali Haider, 49, from Sialkot, Pakistan, allegedly operated two fake Pakistan-based companies, Diamond TV World Productions and Multimedia Advertising Ltd., to fraudulently obtain visas for Pakistani nationals to travel to Ecuador, Cuba and Colombia, according to court documents cited by the DOJ.US authorities said the individuals were presented as employees traveling for legitimate film production work, but their intended destination was the southern US border. Once admitted into countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, the DOJ said Haider’s network guided them to the US-Mexico border, where they illegally crossed into

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