LONDON: Scotland Yard will not reopen the investigation into the money laundering inquiry involving the MQM-London chief Altaf Hussain and five others unless Pakistan provides credible and compelling new evidence along with its appeal to the police here requesting a reinvestigation.
According to reports, Pakistani government has asked the British government to reopen the money laundering case against the MQM founder but there is no chance that the Scotland Yard will take this request seriously unless Pakistan comes up with a legal case – an opportunity that Pakistani authorities failed to utilise while the investigation into the MQM leader was alive till around three months ago when the police decided on “no further action” against the troubled MQM leader.
Trusted sources in the police have said that reinvestigation into the MQM money laundering case is not possible because any reinvestigation will have to be justified on the “public interest ground” which will be impossible to establish unless there is new evidence and “sufficient new grounds” to reopen a closed investigation.