RAWALPINDI: A Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) counter-terrorism wing committee will be departing to London in the first week of May to collect evidence against Mutahidda Quami Movement’s (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain in a case of money laundering in party’s charity wing funds.
According to sources, FIA team will be led by Dr Mazharul Haq Kaka Khail. A money laundering case had been registered against Altaf Hussain in September 2017 at the FIA State Bank circle on the complaint of Sarfaraz Anwar Merchant.
A section of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 had been included in the first investigation report (FIR). The FIR mentioned that Karachi and London were the place where crimes were committed.
Anwar Merchant in the FIR claimed that MQM leaders sent money to their leader from an illegal channel of Hawala from Khidmat-i-Khalq Foundation’s (KKF) bank account. The FIR also carried the names of MQM leaders who sent money to Altaf Hussain.
The FIA team will also be gathering evidence against MQM’s senior party leader Dr Imran Farooq’s murder in September 2010.
MQM leaders are already charged with the conspired murder of Farooq. MQM leaders Moazzam Ali Khan, Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali are languishing in jail.