Dr Imran Farooq case: Money laundering probe launched after stashes of cash found
LONDON: The British national of Pakistani origin, who was arrested and questioned for 34 hours on suspicion of conspiracy to murder Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, Dr Imran Farooq, have been...
July 02, 2013
According to Geo News correspondent, Murtaza Ali Shah, the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command Unit has also launched a probe into possible money laundering after it recovered hoards of cash during search operations in two North West London apartments and a business address.
The New Scotland Yard had detained and quizzed British Pakistani for 34 hours after releasing him on a 3-month bail last week.
The 52-year-old British Citizen of Pakistani origin, Iftikhar Hussain, was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport at approx last week after landing at the airport on a flight from Canada.
The detectives interviewed him at a West London Police station for about 34 hours before he was released on bail.
Dr Farooq was on his way home from work when he was attacked outside his home in Green Lane, Edgware, by a group of Pakistani looking men who killed him using a kitchen knife and bricks. A post-mortem gave his cause of death as multiple stab wounds and blunt trauma to the head.
A five and a half inch-bladed kitchen knife and a house brick used in the attack were recovered at the scene. A spokesman at the Metropolitan Police told that detectives from “the Met Police Counter Terrorism Command remain committed to finding those responsible”.
The detectives believe that Dr Imran Farooq’s murder would have required careful planning and would have required help from other people, some of whom may have provided assistance or information unwittingly.
