ISLAMABAD - Former Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Monday thanked President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for his commitment to carry out evaluation of India’s mechanism to deal with financial crimes this year.
In a statement, the Pakistan People’s Party leader said that he had been persistently writing to President FATF about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s involvement in money laundering and terror financing.
“I am thankful to him for honouring his commitment to include India in the FATF list,” he added.
He welcomed the decision of FATF and said that he would surprise the FATF with irrefutable evidence against India.
Rehman Malik said that on the issue of Indian involvement in money laundering and terror financing, he had written four letters, dated 14th of February, 2019, 12th of March, 2019, 20th of October, 2020, and 10th of March, 2021 to President FATF Dr. Marcus Pleyer, wherein he had pleaded for action against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government for protecting international fugitives, involved in biggest ever credit fraud and money laundering and terror financing.
He said that FATF President had committed in his presser on 25th February 2021, that “India is subject to [the] same rules as any other country and FATF will assess India as any other country when the time comes,” adding FATF did it as committed in the presser.
Rehman Malik said that reportedly Indian government had written to occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Indian Punjab to nominate one IGP-rank officer each, and Gujarat had been asked to nominate a DIG-rank officer to prepare the ground work for the proposed evaluation of the Indian anti-money laundering regime and legal measures to check financial crimes.