Daily Times

KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency has reportedly detected 69 bank accounts of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders.

This was disclosed in a report submitted by authority to an anti-terrorism court on the other day.

Moreover, the authority claimed to have found that Rs 1,321,509,608 were collected through extortion and ransom and were deposited in the bank accounts of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, a charity wing of the MQM, during the years 2013-15. It added that the funds were transferred abroad to the bank accounts of MQM UK, Simon and Simons in the UK and other accounts. The FIA stated that the federal government had appointed a lawyer in the United Kingdom, Barrister Toby Codman, adding that the counsel was provided record required from the UK.

Published in Daily Times, August 3^rd 2018.