Around 40 shops were sealed and 60 money changers arrested in a raid on the open currency market in Chowk Yadgar in the city on Thursday.
The raid was carried out by a team of Federal Investigation Agency officials who were backed by the police. An FIA official told The Express Tribune there were 300 money changers in the market and only four were legal and registered.
The remaining 296 were unregistered. He accused some of them of being involved in money laundering and transferring funds to Islamic State in Afghanistan.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 15th, 2016.
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