Law, IT ministers appear before FIA in money laundering case

They are accused of carrying out money laundering using KKF's accounts

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday questioned Federal Minister for Law Farogh Naseem and Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT) Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui in a money laundering case.

Naseem is accused of transferring Rs268,000 in an account of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF), the MQM’s charity wing. Moreover, the party is accused of carrying out money laundering using foundation’s accounts.



On Sunday, FIA’s counter-terrorism wing had sent notices to hundreds of people working in the party and instructed them to get in touch with the agency’s Islamabad office.

The MQM-P workers are accused of depositing large sums of money of over Rs1 billion in the foundation’s accounts.

It is pertinent to mention that a case had been registered against MQM’s founder and KKF in October 2016 but was transferred to the FIA later.