The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday formed two committees to probe into Axact, Khanani and Kalia cases, on the orders of the Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar.
On December 30, Nisar had announced that a prosecution committee was being formed to probe into the Axact fake degree scandal after an Axact executive was charged by a US Federal Court for his part in a $140 million fake diploma mill scheme.
Umair Hamid, 30, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scam that impacted tens of thousands of consumers.
Nisar, holding a press conference in Islamabad, had said that two more committees were being formed to probe into money laundering case.
The two committees, headed by Deputy Director Jamel Ahmed, will include four officials, according to the Ministry of Interior. These were formed to thoroughly investigate all the facts and take the two important cases to their logical end.
The ministry said investigations into Khanani and Kalia money laundering case, initiated in 2008, were stalled due to unspecified reasons during the tenure of the former government. It was said that the entire record of the case was also disposed.
The investigations into the Axact case were affected, the ministry said, due to the ailment of the investigating officer.
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