FIA serves notices to MQM leaders in money laundering case
- By Web Desk -
- Nov 06, 2018
KARACHI: After getting concrete evidences, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday served notices to several Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders, including Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui and Faisal Subzwari, in a money laundering case.
According to the details, more than 12 MQM-P activists and leaders have been served notices as FIA found evidences of fake entries in the bank accounts of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF), a charity wing of the MQM.
Sources said that FIA counter-terrorism wing found new and concrete evidences in the money laundering case.
FIA uncovers 69 foreign bank accounts of MQM leaders
It is pertinent to mention here that FIA had detected 69 foreign bank accounts of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leaders, according to its report submitted to an anti-terrorism court on August 3.
The FIA revealed that Rs1,321,509,608 were collected from people through extortion and ransom, and during the years 2013-15, that money was deposited in the bank accounts of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation,
The report further disclosed that those funds were then transferred abroad to the bank accounts of MQM UK, Simon and Simons in the UK and other accounts.
The FIA report claimed that Arshad Vohra, Khawaja Sohail Mansoor, former senator Babar Ghauri, Khawaja Rehan and former senator Ahmed Ali laundered the KKF funds to the UK.
The government had sought information from the relevant countries in this regard and a lawyer, Barrister Toby Codman, has been appointed by the federal government in the UK.