Over 70 MQM bank accounts in the UK being probed for money laundering
June 17, 2016
More than 70 bank accounts in United Kingdom owned by the Muttahida Qaumi Movement are being investigated for money laundering charges by the Scotland Yard.
Of them 28 have been opened under the party’s former financial head Tariq Mir, and 12 have been opened under MQM’s name, a report by British journalist Owen Bennet Jones in the BBC states.
The report adds that money from these accounts was used to purchase several properties in London. To transfer the money services of a company owned by MQM chief Altaf Hussain were used.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has obtained these documents from the Scotland Yard, a source said.
Meanwhile, the MQM has denied owning these bank accounts.
A six-member visited the FIA headquarters on May 22. The team met with the Joint Investigation team in connection to former MQM leader Imran Farooq’s murder case and money laundering allegations against the party.
The British agency is investigating the murder of their citizen Imran Farooq, and money laundering charges against the party.
Imran Farooq, 50, a founding member of the MQM, was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, northwest London, as he returned home from work on September 16, 2010.
