ISLAMABAD – FIA has made new revelations in the money laundering scam worthbillions.
FIA has revealed that the amount of laundered money has swell to Rs 41billion.
15 more suspicious bank accounts, four of which have been confirmed as fakeby FIA.
A total of Rs6 billion was laundered via these four fake or ‘benami’accounts raising the amount laundered to near 41 billion from Rs 35billions.
With this latest revelation, the total amount of money laundered via fakebank accounts amounts to Rs41 billion.
The FIA is investigating at least 32 people for suspicions of moneylaundering from fictitious accounts, including former president Asif AliZardari and his sister Faryal Talpur. Zardari’s close aide Hussain Lawaiwas arrested in July this year in connection with the probe, whereas OmniGroup Chairman Anwar Majeed and his son, Abdul Ghani Majeed, were alsotaken into custody earlier this month.
FIA officials said that out of the four accounts confirmed to befictitious, some belong to Omni Group.
The agency is investigating the other 11 ‘suspicious’ accounts, via whichRs90 million were transferred with the involvement of Zardari group.
So far, as many as 33 bank accounts have been found to be fake or ‘benami’accounts which were employed to launder money