FIA registers case against Farah Shahzadi over money laundering charges
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The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore has registered a case against Farah Gogi for corruption and money laundering of billions.
Farhat Shahzadi alias Farah Gogi is a close friend of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi.
According to the sources, FIA Lahore has started investigations against Farah Gogi after registering a case on the application of Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab.
It is pleaded to the agency that Farah Gogi had been involved in taking bribes in exchange for the transfer and posting of the bureaucracy during the previous regime. She succeeded in getting an allotment of a piece of the land worth Rs 600 million for her company after paying only Rs 80 million in 2021.
Farah Gogi illegally got an allotment of 10 acres of land in the Faisalabad Industrial Estate. Farah Gogi also took bribes for illegally awarding contract tenders, the application said. It is further contended that Rs 840 million were deposited in Farah Gogi's personal bank accounts in three years. A total of more than Rs 1 billion was deposited through cash in all the bank accounts of Farah Gogi.
About Rs 410 million was deposited in her bank accounts through cash only in the year 2019-20.
Farah Gogi's billions of rupees in anonymous bank accounts likely to be found during investigation, it added.
