“She would take me to people who practice black magic,” he alleged, adding that she had taken him to one such individual on Tuesday night as well, and then he murdered her.

A senior official said the FIA introduced a strict accountability mechanism to round up the human trafficking elements with itself in the aftermath of the boat incidents in Europe and Africa, in which a large number of Pakistanis lost their lives.

The complainant stated that he, too, was tricked into sending a total of Rs468,500.

Previous arrests centered on the northern border with China, and it's the first time the Myanmar junta has announced mass arrests for scams in Yangon.