Court declares five suspects absconders in money laundering case

KARACHI (92 News) – A banking court in Karachi on Thursday ordered Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to declare five absconding suspects proclaimed offenders in money laundering case. A banking court heard a multi-billion rupee money laundering scam. During the hearing, the court directed the FIA agency to paste posters of the proclaimed offenders at public places. The court also ordered to collect details of assets of the accused in money laundering through fictitious bank accounts and freeze their all property. Meanwhile, the red warrants for the absconders will be issued by the investigation agency. Currently, the FIA traced two fake bank accounts belonging to an unemployed youth in Jhang and a Falooda vendor of Karachi’s Orangi Town during the investigation of ongoing probe into money laundering case. The FIA discovered that the fake bank accounts were opened in private banks in Karachi and contained millions of rupees without the knowledge of the account holders.