Muhammad Qasim Ali

Muhammad Qasim Ali was born in Pakistan on January 1, 1977, but was living in Parma. In 2015, he was accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration, and of being part of a criminal association composed of several individuals of Pakistani and Afghan origins across Italy, who trafficked people into Italy illegally and helped them stay by providing them with fake documents or job permits. His involvement was part of a broader operation of the DIGOS to apprehend members of a terrorist cell close to al-Qaeda and other jihadist organisations, operating between Olbia and Rome under the direction of Sultan Wali Khan.
In February 2015, Muhammad Qasim Ali was charged with Article 12 of the Italian Immigration Law (D.Lgs. 286/1998) for having aided the illegal immigration of eighty individuals of Pakistani origins from Greece to Italy in June 2010. In particular, he worked under the directives of Syed Gul Rahman to provide immigrants with hospitality and general assistance, such as distributing SIM cards. On June 21, 2010, after Rahman was contacted by a migrant named Waqas who had arrived in Milan, Ali was tasked with finding and picking up Waqas and a group of migrants. Once he located them, Rahman instructed Ali to transport the group to Novara telling him he was responsible for coordinating the safe movement of migrants.
In 2015, the preliminary investigation judge of Cagliari decided Muhammad Qasim Ali was to be set free because he was deemed not to have been involved in the immigration handling association. He was only contacted by Rahman in the 2010 episode and was therefore not considered to have acted criminally.