ISLAMABAD – Director General of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) BashirMemon formed a Panama-like Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe around65 fake accounts where volume of illegally parked amount could reach up toRs70 billion.
“The volume of laundered amount, which was earlier found to be Rs35billion, might go up to Rs70 billion. We are going to fetch details of allsuspicious transactions from the Financial Monitoring Unit, State Bank ofPakistan and four other private banks,” claimed an investigator who spoketo this correspondent on condition of anonymity. The JIT, comprising sevensenior officers and also supported by 14 officers from differentdepartments, is being headed by Additional Director General FIA Dr NajafQuli Mirza, who is a relative of former interior minister Zulfiqar Mirza.
The FIA claimed that the list of credit depositors goes up from 15 toaround two dozen. A sum of Rs4,431,545,792 wascredited and routed throughdifferent fake accounts, according to the investigation report whichcontinued to reveal that Zain Malik deposited Rs750,000,000, M/s SujawalAgri Farms (Pvt) Ltd Rs50,500,000, M/s Tando Allahyar Sugar Mills (Pvt) LtdRs238,446,000, M/s Omni (Pvt) Ltd Rs50,000,000, M/s Agro Farms Thatta (Pvt)Ltd Rs17,000,000, M/s Alfa Zulu Co (Pvt) Ltd Rs22,500,000, Haji MureedAkbar (banker on behalf of contractor), Rs20,000,000, M/s Sher MuhammadMugheri & Co (contractor) Rs50,000,000, MN Sardar Muhammad Asharaf Baloch(Pvt) Ltd (contractor) Rs100,000,000, M/s A-One Intl Rs184,506,490, M/sLucky International Rs305,000,000, M/s Logistic Trading (1.I.Chundrigar)Rs145,000,000, M/s lqbal Metals, Rs156,380,086, MN Royal InternationalRs185,000,000 and NI/s Umair Associates deposited Rs581,200,000.
Investigators also confided to the Geo News that the list of beneficiariesjumped up to 20 companies and individuals. The investigation report namedbeneficiaries who received payments were Nasser Abdullah Lootah, ChainnanSummit Bank, Rs2, 492,000,000, M/s Ansari Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd (AnwarMajeed). Ali Kama Rs73, 782, 303, M/s Omni Polymer Packages (Pvt) Ltd(Abdul Ghani Majeed) Rs5,000,000, M/s Pak Ethanol (Pvt) Ltd (Mustafa ZMajeed and Abdul Ghani Majeed Rs15,000,000, M/s Chamber Sugar Mills (Pvt)(Anwar Majeed, Nimr Majeed) Rs200,000,000, M/s Agro Farms Thalia (Pvt) Ltd(Anwar Majeed, Nazli Majeed Rs5,700,000, M/s Zardari Group (Pvt) Ltd (AsifAli Zardari, Faryal Talpur, etc. Rs15,000,000, M/s Parthenon (Pvt) Ltd(1qbal Khan Noori) Rs500,000, M/s A-One Int Rs575,249, M/s LuckyInternational Rs107,200,000, M/s Logistic Trading Rs145,000,000, M/s RoyalInternational Rs285,000,000 and M/s Umair Associates received aroundRs801,000,000. Investigators further revealed that the illegally parkedamount which is in billions was used in purchasing properties in Dubaiaccordingly.
About the role of accused persons, the FIA investigation report exclusivelyobtained by Geo News revealed that Anwar Majeed, who is the owner of OmniGroup of Industries, was a major beneficiary of this laundered amount andnow fled Pakistan. On the directions of their employers namely KhawajaAnwer Majid, Abdul Ghani Majeed opened fake bank accounts in connivancewith bankers. Anwer Majeed is director of Khoski Sugar Mills, Agro FarmsThatta Pvt Ltd, Ansari Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd, Tando Allayar Sugar Mills(Pvt) Ltd and Chamber Sugar Mills. Fifteen (15) cheques amounting toRs238,446,000 have been found credited in the account No 0200129022 UBLAvari Tower Branch and maintained in the name of Tando Allahyar Sugar Mills(Pvt) Ltd. M/s Ansari Sugar Mills Abdul Ghani Majeed, credited Rs73,782,303and Chamber Sugar Mills received Rs200,000,000 and an amount of Rs2,492million credited from the account of ‘A-One International’ to the accountof Naseer Abdullah Lootah (Chairman Summit Bank) was also transferred onthe directions of sponsors/directors of the Omni Group.
Abdul Ghani received a huge amount worth billions in accounts of OmniPolymer Packages (Pvt) Ltd, Khoski Sugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd, Tando AllayarSugar Mills (Pvt) Ltd and Pak Ethanol (Pvt) Ltd. Aslam Masood who is theCFO of various companies of Omni Group provided the signed Account OpeningForm to the bankers of Summit Bank for opening of account of ‘A-OneInternational’. Besides, he is also the signatory of account titled as’Agro Farms Thatta Pvt Ltd’.
Noreen Sultan, who was the then relationship manager at Summit Bank,admitted the signatures, also facilitated the opening of account of A-OneInternational and facilitated operations of the accounts for DirectorsManagers Employees of Omni Group. Erum Agee acted (02 accounts in the nameof Ibrahim Linkers) and admitted to have opened account at Arif Habib Bank(now Summit Bank) but disowned A/c Na. 0354-151324-1000 at Sindh Bank,Shahbar.