ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Tuesday files anothercorruption reference indirectly linked with former President Asif Zardarifamily.
NAB has filed reference of fake bank accounts case against Omni Groupowners.
According to details, Omni Group chairman Anwar Majeed, Abdul Ghani Majeed,Namar Majeed and Zulqarnain Majeed have been named in the reference.
The anti-corruption watchdog alleged that eight sugar mills of Omni Grouphad embezzled subsidy money worth Rs34 crore.
On December 24, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT), formed on the apexcourt’s orders to probe into the alleged money-laundering case, presentedits 128-page final report to the court which included recommendations forfiling 16 NAB references.
The report had mentioned that 29 fake accounts were identified by theFederal Investigation Agency (FIA) which laundered Rs42 billion, however,the team further discovered 11,500 bank accounts of 924 account holders, 59Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and 24,500 Cash Transactions Reports(CTRs).
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All of these details were scrutinized, besides the loan profile of 924individuals.
The report further stated that the fake accounts were opened through theOmni Group, however the accounts had been engaged with direct transactionswith the Zardari Group, Bahria Town, Sindh Government departments andcertain contractors while the ultimate beneficiary of money laundering wasZardari’s family.
Later, the court had ordered Zardari to submit his reply by December 31,however, during the previous hearing extended his and his sister s interimbail till January 7.
