ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has traced properties of96 more Pakistanis in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during an ongoinginvestigation against people individuals having assets beyond known sourcesof income.
According to the private news channel report and it quoted the latest FIAreport that 1,211 Pakistanis have 2,154 properties in the UAE. Theinvestigation body said it had served notices to 341 more people pertainingto the case.
The report stated that 61 property holders could not be identified as yet.It added that 10 people were not cooperating, five expired and one of themis absconding.
The report all relayed that investigations against 167 people had beenclosed whereas 79 property holders had submitted their tax returns. “97individuals expressed ignorance about their properties in the UAE.”
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Last year, on Nov 30, the FIA submitted a new report to the Supreme Courtcontaining details of Pakistanis who have stashed their assets abroad.According to the FIA list, as many as 1,115 Pakistanis own UAE properties.Out of them, 338 belong to Punjab, 639 are from Sindh, 115 from Islamabad,18 from KP and five from Balochistan.
