ISLAMABAD: Veteran Politician Javed Hashmi lands into troubles as it hasbeen revealed by FIA initial probe that he received at least an amount ofRs 2.7 crore from ISI indirectly in Asghar Khan case.
An amount of Rs27 million was directly transferred to personal account ofseasoned politician Javed Hashmi, revealed FIA progress report on AsgharKhan case.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed that the said amount wassent to Mr Hashmi through Yousaf Memon who was allegedly assigned todistribute Rs70 million among those politicians who refused to receivepayment directly from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), etc.
“Javed Hashmi in his statement had claimed that he did not take any moneyfrom ISI or any illegal source and the amount received in his [Hashmi’s]accounts (Rs2 crore 77 lacs)) in 1990-1991 in form of telegraphictransfers) were business transactions that he [Hashmi] had conducted withYousaf Memon,” revealed the report where FIA investigators said they haveanalysed all the accounts used to bribe politicians.
Mr Hashmi, who denied receiving any money from ISI, FIA claimed, is theonly politician who received amount through his personal accounts and theinvestigators told this correspondent that Mr Hashmi could establish hisbusiness links with Yousaf Memon.
“In light of inquiry conducted so far, it is evident that, money was takenout of bank accounts illegally and is alleged to have been distributedamong civil persons including politicians (while overwhelming share ofillegally gotten wealth was siphoned off by Younis Habib and hisassociates),” revealed the report.
The country’s top court in Nov 2012 ordered the FIA to initiate proceedingsagainst the politicians who had allegedly been given a total of Rs140million with the objective of blocking chances of Pakistan People’s Party’svictory in the 1990 general elections.