ISLAMABAD: Federal Law Minister (FIA) Farogh Naseem on Tuesday was questioned for over an hour by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in a money laundering case.
Sources said that the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) leader appeared before an FIA team. He was accompanied by party chief and Information Technology and Telecommunication (IT) Minister Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui.
Naseem is accused of transferring Rs268,000 in an account of Khidmat-e-Khalq Foundation (KKF), the MQM’s charity wing. The party is accused of carrying out money laundering using the charity’s accounts.
“The investigative agency’s counter-terrorism wing on Sunday had sent out notices to 726 people working at different positions within the party, instructing them to get in touch with its Islamabad head office,” sources said.
The party workers are accused of depositing large sums of money, over Rs1 billion, in KKF accounts.
Based on these accusations, a case was registered against MQM’s founder and KKF in October 2017 but was transferred to the FIA later.