10 nominated in Rs. 9b money laundering case

KARACHI: The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) has nominated 10 ac-cused including a local battery company’s owner in a Rs9 billion money laundering case.
Revelations have been made in the ongoing probe into the Rs9 bil-lion money laundering case.
The FBR’s Directorate of Internal Audit (Southern Region) – Inland Rev-enue Karachi traced ‘money launderers’ who misused a differently-abled person’s bank accounts for the alleged financial crime.
Agencies add: FBR nominated 10 more accused including a local bat-tery company’s owner in the case. Sources revealed that the company owners had established a fake company by using the name of a differ-ently-abled person.
Moreover, the revenue board also traced six more companies that were being used for money laundering. After the initial probe, the differently-abled person namely Nawab Zaman was arrested a month ago which led to the recent findings.
Agencies further added that teams have been sent to Lahore and Islam-abad for arresting the company’s owner. –Agencies