{"id":8808,"date":"2022-06-15T13:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8808"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T13:25:16","slug":"fia-files-rs720-million-money-laundering-case-against-moonis-elahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/fia-files-rs720-million-money-laundering-case-against-moonis-elahi\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA files Rs720 million money laundering case against Moonis Elahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday said it has filed a case against former federal minister and PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi.<\/p>\n<p>The case, according to the agency, pertains to alleged money laundering, of Rs720 million and has been registered against Moonis Elahi and others.<\/p>\n<p>It was registered following a report by the FIA Anti-Corruption Circle, the first information report (FIR) said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FIR, a probe against Moonis under the Money Laundering Act was started two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The FIR further said that the report by the Sugar Commission said that Moonis had allegedly engaged in money laundering.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that last year, former prime minister Imran Khan had tasked the FIA to investigate the sugar crisis throughout the country and find out who benefited from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/former-director-fia-dr-rizwan-died-of-cardiac-arrest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Former Director FIA Dr Rizwan died of cardiac arrest<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, a report by the agency released last year claimed that top PTI members as well as Moonis were among those who had allegedly gained from the sugar crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a money laundering case has been filed against Nawaz Bhatti, nephew of Muhammad Khan Bhatti, the secretary of Punjab Assembly, and Mazhar Iqbal, a peon at RYK Sugar Mills, said the FIR.<\/p>\n<p>FIA said that both Bhatti and Iqbal have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The FIR added that raids are being conducted for the arrest of another nephew of the Punjab Assembly secretary, Wajid Bhatti.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows reports earlier this week that the FIA had decided to move against Moonis.<\/p>\n<p>FIA said that &#8220;sufficient evidence&#8221; has been collected against Moonis after which the agency decided to formally start an investigation against him.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the development then, Moonis took to his official Twitter account and wrote &#8220;Bismillah&#8221; while sharing a screenshot of the news, indicating that he welcomes the move.<\/p>\n<p>Today, he was just as defiant, tweeting: &#8220;Do what you will. I appeared (in court) before and will appear again. Wait for me. I am coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday said it has filed a case against former federal minister and PML-Q leader Moonis Elahi. The case, according to the agency, pertains to alleged money laundering, of Rs720 million and has been registered against Moonis Elahi and others. It was registered following a report by the FIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[849,960,296],"class_list":["post-8808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-federal-investigation-agency","tag-punjab-assembly","tag-fia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}