FIA intensifies crackdown

KARACHI/LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has intensified crackdown against money-changers as its agents raided the offices of money-changers and NADRA on Sunday and arrested another top forex trader Altaf Khanani.

Source privy to the developments told The Nation that National Research Cyber Crime Cell of FIA raided the office of Khanani and Kalia International (KKI) situated at Sima Trade Centre and also raided the four offices of NADRA to probe the scam of money laundering.

FIA officials have taken away whole database and handed it over to the Cyber Crime Cell. It is revealed that further raids will also be conducted on Monday (today).

“KKI chief Manaf Kalia will be produced before the court for remand on Monday (today). While FIA continued interrogating Kalia for his alleged involvement in the financial scam,” the source added. He said that if the court gave the remand of the accused then the Lahore wing of the FIA would take them to Lahore for further investigation.

“The teams have conducted raids at different KKI offices and seized computerised record, in which the names of the politicians and bureaucrats are also included, to collect evidence against the accused.”

It is pertinent to mention here that Manaf Kalia and Javed Khanani have business partnership. They were arrested on charges of illegally transferring $10 billion abroad.

FIA have been looking for the record of NADRA due to the issuance of fake identity cards. Even some of the staffers of the Post Offices have also been taken into custody.