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The Passport and Immigration Department of Pakistan has presented its inquiry report on the alleged London Olympics 'visa scam' reported by a UK-based tabloid, claiming that the passport office had no role in the scam. The Passport office added that Mohammad Ali Asad - the man who claimed to have acquired a Pakistani passport on someone else's particulars - had come to the office himself to get his passport, reports The Express Tribune. Asad's pictures and thumbprints are real and the data of the passport office and NADRA is also the same, the inquiry report claimed. Mubashir Tirmizi, assistant director at Garden Town , Lahore passport office, who was earlier arrested was also released. Meanwhile, the interior ministry formulated a committee to send a legal notice by next week to the tabloid- The Sun - seeking Rs.10 billion in damages for publishing a "fake story". The Sun had claimed that it had infiltrated a crime ring offering false passports, visas and access to London 2012 as bogus support staff. It claimed to have uncovered a ring of corrupt Pakistani officials and travel staff conspiring with a prominent politician to bypass stringent security, but the paper admitted that no visas were issued and that a passport was made only after strikingly similar pictures were produced of one the people involved in the operation.

Pak passport department claims innocence in London Olympics 'visa scam'