India seeks extradition of Dawood, Azhar, Tiger

ISLAMABAD - Advisor to Prime Minister on Interior Rehman Malik Thursday said India had demanded of Pakistan to hand over Dawood Ibrahim, Tiger Memon and Maulana Masood Azhar and there had been no demand for 20 wanted persons from New Delhi. Addressing a press conference here at FIA Headquarters he said that the government was not sending officials of FIA and ISI to India. However, he added that Pakistan had previously received a letter from India seeking cooperation in the investigation of Mumbai carnage. Malik while condemning the Mumbai carnage said that they were ready for unconditional cooperation to India for Mumbai attacks. Earlier, talking about the financial scam, The Advisor said directions were issued to Director General FIA to take stock of the situation regarding complaints of flight of capital from the country and initiate action against this illegal business. "Accordingly, the Director General FIA issued instructions to all Zonal Directors to activate their resources and collect necessary information and to initiate legal action against the unlawful business of Hawala", he added. He said that the authorities thought that such illegal business was not possible without the help of their own people and they started investigation and the offender was successfully traced out. However, he did not mention the name, who was involved in the scam. He added that on receiving the tip about the culprit, the investigation team reached Gujranwala and during the investigation of Case FIR No. 23/2008 of FIA Lahore Zone registered against M/s Duniya Enterprises Gujranwala, a Franchise of KKI, it was revealed that the illegal transactions were being made through a computer which was hooked with the main server installed in the Head Office of KKI at Karachi. During investigation it came to light that an amount of Rs 2.379 billion from 13.06.06 to 5.11.08 (deciphered from computers) is involved in Hawala business from Gujranwala alone. All the accused persons namely Rustam Ali Khan, Tariq Mehmood, Javed Khanani and Munaf Kalia were arrested and sent to judicial custody by the court. The Director/Owner of Duniya Enterprises Niyamat Mirza is on interim bail from the court till 5th December 2008 while his son Faizal Mirza is still at large and his warrants of arrest have been obtained to effect his arrest. On the basis of a complaint by Sate Bank of Pakistan regarding Hawala, FIA Karachi Zone opened an Inquiry No.118/08, dated 14.10.2008, during which sufficient evidence of Hawala came on record. Hence Case FIR No.76/2008 was registered against the Owners/Director of Khanai and Kalia International. Accused persons Javed Khanani and Munaf Kalia were also arrested in this case. Another accused Hanif Kalia was arrested on 28th of November 2008 and has been remanded in FIA custody till 6th December 2008 by the court. The bail petitions of the accused Javed Khanani, Munaf Kalia, Rustam Ali Khan and Tariq Mehmood have been adjourned to 5.12.2008 in the case registered at Lahore i.e. 23/2008, whereas, in the case registered at Karachi i.e 76/2008, the bail petitions of Javed Khanani and Munaf Kalia were fixed for 06.12.2008. The investigation conducted so far transpired that an amount of Rs 103,849,300,144 from 18.07.2005 to 6.11.2008 has been transmitted through Hawala in 543,510 transactions at Karachi. The latest deciphering of another server by Forensic Experts pertaining to the month of June and July 2008 reveals that an amount of US $ 348,214,27, British Pound 678,809, Japanese Yen 189,63699 had been remitted. Malik said the total amount of foreign currency remitted illegally out Pakistan during this period comes to US $ 451,216,16. He added that most of the transactions were made in USA, Canada, UAE, UK, Germany, Spain and Italy. He said that after the legal action by FIA, not only the flow of foreign exchange has reportedly swelled by millions of rupees through official channel in the last month, but also the price of US dollar has witnessed a significant decline. Talking about the method used by the accused, he said that they had a banking system in different countries and through that people used to send money in and out of Pakistan but the accused kept the dollar in their account and deliver the amount to the receiver in Pakistani currency. He also announced that if somebody had sent remittance through the said system and also had the receipt could contact the Ministry of Interior or Federal Investigation Agency for the recovery. In response to a question he said that the government had not prepared any list yet carrying names of bureaucrats, generals and politicians involved in money laundering cases. However, he warned businessmen involved in "Hawala" to shut down their business otherwise strict action would be taken against them.

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