The Customs Intelligence and Investigation wing has extended investigation to trace the network of suspects involved in money laundering from Islamabad International Airport (IIA), sources said on Sunday.
The investigators are checking the record of the Airport Security Force (ASF), Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), and customs officials who remained deployed at IIA during a certain period when alleged illegal cash shipments occurred, sources said.
The investigation wing has written a letter to ASF, CAA, and Pakistan Customs Islamabad officials seeking footage of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, sources told The Express Tribune.
The shift-wise record of employees and CCTV footage deployed at IIA on specific days from February 2017 to April 2017 during UAE-bound flights has been sought from the related institutions.
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They said that startling revelations came to the fore while investigating a suspect named Jawad arrested in a money laundering case.
There is a limit on the value of cash a person may carry out of the country, officials said explaining that like the so called drug mules, some people act as carriers to syphon black money out of the country.
The suspect used to travel abroad from IIA with huge amount of currency notes in his luggage. Sources added that Jawad even declared the currency he carried at foreign airports. Customs has launched a probe to trace the abettors who allowed Jawad a safe passage on airport.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 15th, 2021.
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