Naimat Khan
KARACHI: Former Director General of the Karachi Development Authority (KDA), Nasir Abbas and his family has nine bank accounts in Canada, Bangkok and United States of America, the Frontier Post reliably learnt here on Tuesday.
According to credible sources in the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA), these accounts have been used for money laundering of millions of rupees.
“The FIA has identified nine such accounts, which have been used for sending money abroad,” an official of the federal agency told while demanding anonymity. The FIA has decided to write to the relevant banks in order to obtain further information regarding these accounts, he added.
After the investigation, wife of Abbas, who lives abroad, has also been nominated in the FIR, sources informed.
In Pakistan the branches of several banks have been used. These branches, sources told, are situated in Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Okara and Islamabad. The money laundering by Abbas and his family had been continue for several years till his arrest in 2017, sources said.
Last week, The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Director Karachi Development Authority (KDA), Syed Obaid Ahmed, and took important documents into its possession.
The NAB team raided the Karachi Development Authority (KDA) office in Civic Centre in connection with an ongoing inquiry against former KDA director general (DG) Nasir Abbas, according to reports. Ahmed was arrested on leads gathered by the investigating team after interrogations by Abbas, who is already in NAB’s custody.
Ahmed is prima facie involved in approving amenity plots for illegal use and will soon be produced before an accountability court for physical remand.
Last month, the Accountability Court handed over four persons to an investigation team of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a 14-day physical remand.
According to details, a team of NAB on Friday arrested a former assistant accounts officer of the Bureau of Curriculum, his two sons and a brother in an alleged case of corruption. The NAB’s spokesperson Rizwan Soomro told that the arrest was made after a raid at the residence of the ex-accounts official Pir Bux Soomro in Hyderabad.
Pir Bux’s sons Mustansar and Muzaffar and his brother Ali, who were all accused in the NAB case were also arrested, the spokesperson said. He informed that the four arrested persons were allegedly involved with former district accounts officer Mushtaq Shaikh in around Rs400 million corruption and embezzlement of public funds.
Few days earlier, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested former Director General Karachi Development Authority, Syed Nasir Abbas, here from central prison.
Abbas was shifted to undisclosed location for interrogation in money laundering case, according to reports. Abbas was already arrested and sent to jail on judicial remind in concealing facts about his passports.
On Thursday, local court ordered to give Abbas in the custody of NAB, which pleaded that the accused is wanted in several corruption and money laundering cases.
Last month, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested Syed Nasir Abbas, Director General of the Karachi Development Authority (KDA), for concealing facts regarding his passports.
An FIR no 320/2017 was registered in FIA AHT Circle, Karachi on the complaint of Azhar Hussain Kalwar, Deputy Assistant Director Regional Passport Office, Karachi.
