ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister Farogh Naseem was Tuesday questioned for over an hour by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a money laundering case.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader reportedly appeared before an FIA team, accompanied by party chief and IT Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
Naseem is accused of transferring an amount of Rs 268,000 in an account of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation, the charity wing of the MQM. The party is accused of carrying out money laundering using the charity’s accounts. The investigative agency’s counter-terrorism wing on Sunday had sent out notices to 726 people working at different positions within the party, instructing them to get in touch with its Islamabad head office. The party workers are accused of depositing huge sums of money amounting to over Rs 1 billion in the KKF accounts. A case against the MQM founder as well as KKF was registered in Oct 2017 on accusations of money laundering and was later transferred to the FIA.
Published in Daily Times, November 14th 2018.
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