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Money laundering scam: Fake Bank accounts trail reaches Bilawal House Karachi

Money laundering scam: Fake Bank accounts trail reaches Bilawal House Karachi

*KARACHI – Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probe has reached toBilawal House.*

*The fake bank accounts have been used to pay bills of Bilawal HouseKarachi.*

*The record of transactions of 160 millions through bogus bank accountshave been revealed.*

According to the sources privy to the case, the utility bills of water ofBilawal House were also paid via these fake accounts.

Anwar Majeed who is currently under the custody of FIA as one of thesuspects in the case, his properties in foreign country are being probedand information is being collected in this regard.

A team of FIA will soon leave for abroad to carry out further investigationabout his properties.

A day earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency appealed the Supreme Courtto constitute a joint investigation team (JIT) to probe an ongoing moneylaundering case against former president Asif Zaradri and other suspects.

During the money laundering case hearing in a bench of the apex court,headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, the FIAsubmitted its report regarding the probe and recommended the apex courtbench to form a JIT.

The FIA report also detailed the recent raid at the Khoski Sugar Mills inBadin district, in which FIA along with Rangers confiscated the record of16 sugar mills of the Omni Group, owned by Anwar Majeed who is among thesuspects of money laundering scam.

As per the report, 27 hard disks of mills’ financial record have beenrecovered, however, some of the very significant record was burnt downbefore the raid. “Few samples from the burnt record have been collected,”the report added.

The hard disks of financial record have been sent for the forensic tests,whereas, the weapons found from the premises of the sugar mill have beenhanded over to police, the report mentioned.

FIA informed the bench that the process of freezing the assets of Omnigroup has been initiated.

The report made a crucial revelation that Anwar Majeed and his son AbdulGhani Majeed own a company in Dubai under the name of ‘Crown Trading’. Theforeign bank accounts of Crown Trading was used to transfer money forpurchasing the property in Britain, the report cited.

The SC was informed that the government of UAE has been asked to providefurther information about Crown Trading company.