LAHORE – The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday requested the high commissioner for the United Kingdom to hold an inquiry against the consular attache at the High Commission for Pakistan, London, for attesting the affidavit of a proclaimed offender of the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL), Pakistan Today has learnt.
An official letter available with Pakistan Today forwarded by FIA investigators to the High Commission for Pakistan, London, said the FIA sent a letter on February 11 for assistance in the arrest of proclaimed offenders and tracing of their properties in the UK. FIA said in the letter that the accused in the NICL scam, Mohsin Habib Warraich, instead of joining the investigations, was preparing affidavits which were attested by the Pakistani High Commission’s Counselor Attache Muhammad Irshad.
The letter also said the High Commission did not want to offer assistance to FIA officials over which the matter was placed in the Supreme Court and the chief justice of Pakistan had declared it an act of abetment.
