Altaf charged with appropriation terror, income laundering
KARACHI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday submitted an halt charge-sheet opposite Muttahida Qaumi Movement owner Altaf Hussain before a executive decider of a Anti-Terrorism Courts (ATCs), accusing him of apprehension financing and income laundering.
FIA’s State Bank Circle requisitioned Hussain and others progressing this month on a censure of UK-based businessman Sarfaraz Merchant. The FIA had named MQM’s Senator Babar Ghauri, Karachi Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra, Khawaja Sohail, Khawaja Rehan and Senator Ahmed Ali as co-accused.
Investigating Officer (IO) Mohammad Ali Abro filed a halt review news on Tuesday. He named a MQM owner as absconder. However, a charge-sheet does not discuss a residential addresses of a absconding accused.
Fresh justification supposing opposite Altaf Hussain in income laundering case
The charge-sheet is also wordless about a co-accused who are conjunction named in a charge-sheet nor shown as vindicated of charges. After revelation a halt report, a executive decider of a ATCs sent a box to ATC-II for grave trial.
The FIA pronounced a co-accused sent income to a MQM owner by a Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF), a party’s gift wing. It pronounced a KKF was used as a source of bootleg income send to Hussain, who also perceived Indian appropriation for financing apprehension in Karachi.
According to a charges filed, Hussain, along with others, committed income laundering while behaving opposite a firmness and government of Pakistan and formulating disharmony and terrorism directed during a country’s disintegration.
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