FIA registers case against Farah Shahzadi over money laundering charges

FIA registers case against Farah Shahzadi over money laundering charges

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore has registered a case againstFarah Gogi for corruption and money laundering of billions.

Farhat Shahzadi alias Farah Gogi is a close friend of PakistanTehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi.

According to the sources, FIA Lahore has started investigations againstFarah Gogi after registering a case on the application of Anti-CorruptionEstablishment (ACE) Punjab.

It is pleaded to the agency that Farah Gogi had been involved in takingbribes in exchange for the transfer and posting of the bureaucracy duringthe previous regime. She succeeded in getting an allotment of a piece ofthe land worth Rs 600 million for her company after paying only Rs 80million in 2021.

Farah Gogi illegally got an allotment of 10 acres of land in the FaisalabadIndustrial Estate. Farah Gogi also took bribes for illegally awardingcontract tenders, the application said. It is further contended that Rs 840million were deposited in Farah Gogi’s personal bank accounts in threeyears. A total of more than Rs 1 billion was deposited through cash in allthe bank accounts of Farah Gogi.

About Rs 410 million was deposited in her bank accounts through cash onlyin the year 2019-20.

Farah Gogi’s billions of rupees in anonymous bank accounts likely to befound during investigation, it added.