Sindh govt not helping in fake accounts case, JIT head tells SC

islamabad — The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) formed to probe alleged money laundering through fake bank accounts on Monday informed the Supreme Court that the Sindh government’s cooperation was not satisfactory.

JIT head Ahsan Sadiq told the three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar hearing the case pertaining to money laundering through fake bank accounts, that the “information being provided by the Sindh government is in bits and pieces”.

He said transactions of billions of rupees through thousands of fake accounts have been identified and total figure was in excess of Rs100 billion.

He said investigations so far have revealed that several ‘benami’ accounts were opened in some private banks.

“Some 600 companies and individuals are associated with

the scam. We are trying to reach the real beneficiary of the fake accounts,” the JIT head told the bench.

However, Sindh AdvocateGeneral Salman Talibuddin rejected the JIT head’s statement regarding the provincial government’s attitude. Subsequently, the bench summoned all the relevant secretaries of the Sindh government on October 26 to explain as to why cooperation was not being extended to the JIT in the matter.

Meanwhile, the counsel for Anwar Majeed, CEO of Omni group, pleaded to shift his client from prison to a hospital.

The CJ observed that Majeed might be allowed to be shifted to Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology for a cardiac procedure but not to any hospital in Sindh.

It may be added that former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur and one of his close aides, Anwar Majeed, are among those implicated in the case. —