After the authorities discovered millions of rupees in a bank account maintained in the name of a roadside vendor, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Tuesday traced yet another bank account containing a hefty sum of money without the knowledge of the account holder.
The account maintained in a private bank in Karachi contained Rs173 million and was registered in the name of an unemployed youngster, Asad Ali, from Jhang.
The FIA has traced down Ali and he has been brought to Karachi for questioning.
Ali’s account was discovered during an ongoing probe into fake bank accounts used for money laundering.
Ali’s brother has denied that his brother had any knowledge of the bank account in Karachi. “He completed his education on a scholarship,” the brother told the authorities.
On Sunday, the FIA froze the account of a falooda vendor in Karachi, who was found to have Rs2.25 billion in his bank account.
Abdul Qadir, the resident of Orangi Town’s Sector 8L, said he had no knowledge of the account and the funds in it. The vendor said that he came to know about the funds through a summon from the FIA, adding that a few years back he opened a bank account to buy a house in Karachi’s Sarjani Town.
FIA has began investigations against the transfer in Qadir’s bank account.
Published in Daily Times, October 3rd 2018.
