KARACHI: Former MQM aide Sarfraz Merchant has alleged that Deputy Mayor Arshad Vohra is also involved in the money-laundering case for Muttahida Qaumi Movement-London (MQM-L).
Merchant, who happens to be one of the accused in the MQM-L money-laundering case stated this while talking on a local TV talk show. Merchant further revealed that both factions of the political group, MQM-L and MQM-Pakistan still maintain contacts and that both political factions had advised him not to present pieces of evidence against the party founder.
Merchant also stated that party leader Farooq Sattar’s claims of disassociation with the MQM-L were insubstantial and that funds continued to be transferred even after August 23 – the day when the party officially disassociated itself from the founder and its London chapter.
In a money laundering case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder and others, Vohra on Monday had recorded his statement before the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), media sources had confirmed.
The deputy mayor had been asked by the FIA to provide certain details aside from banking transactions. Cooperating with the agency, Vohra has sought some time to provide details.
On Sunday Vohra joined the Pakistan Sarzameen Party. “Unfortunately, I was not able to deliver to the people of Karachi,” he said, adding: “We have been quite unjust to the people of Pakistan.”
