Rawalpindi-The personnel of an intelligence agency unearthed a racket on Ibrahim Street of Girja Road, allegedly involved in money laundering from United States of America, informed reliable sources on Thursday.
The racket is being run by a housewife identified as Qurat Ul Ain with help of her husband Saqib Sultan and other family members, they said.
The ring leader of racket had also approached city police chief while accusing investigators of Race Course police station and personnel of intelligence agency of harassing her apparently to save her skin from legal action, sources claimed. A senior police officer told The Nation that the lady and her husband laundered huge amount in dollars in the name of family members and maid from the USA and crime is being investigated.
According to sources, police investigators and personnel of an intelligence agency sprang into action after a woman namely Ashi Javed appeared before Station House Officer (SHO) PS Race Course claiming she was robbed off Rs0.3 million by armed dacoits she had withdrawn from UBL Saddar Branch.
The SHO Inspector Mian Imran Abbas while sensing the matter as suspicious had asked the victim woman to share with police the source of income. “The lady told police the money snatched by dacoits was sent by a close relative of her landlord Qurat Ul Ain from the USA,” they said.
The police took the lady to house of landlord located on Ibrahim Street (commonly known as Graveyard Street) on Girja Road and grilled her. Astonishingly, the landlord Qurat Ul Ain refused to recognise Ashi Javed and had given investigators in written that she had no link with the said amount. In the meanwhile, an officer of intelligence agency obtained information from the SHO about the incident. A raid was carried out by the police and personnel of intelligence agency on house of Qurat ul Ain and recorded statements of the accused. It was revealed during investigation that the accused lady Qurat ul Ain and her husband Saqib Sultan used to launder money from the USA on fake accounts in the names of her father Mumtaz, mother Nusrat Mumtaz and sister in law Farah.
The investigators also took into custody some documented record for further investigation, sources said.
The landlord lady Qurat ul Ain had appeared before City Police Officer (CPO) Muhammad Ahsan Younas in an open court on Wednesday last and lodged complaint that she and her family was being harassed by police and spies of intelligence agency. She asked CPO to take legal action against them. Taking action, CPO forwarded the application to Acting SDPO Cantt Circle Farhan Aslam tasking him to probe the matter, sources added. SDPO summoned the applicant and cops and recorded their statements, they said. When contacted, SDPO Farhan Aslam confirmed the development. He said the woman is facing charges of money laundering along with her husband from abroad. “Husband of woman is doing a private job against Rs35,000 per month while transactions are in millions” he said. He said he is probing the matter and would submit his inquiry report soon to CPO Office.
Earlier, SHO PS Race Course Inspector Mian Imran Abbas also confirmed that this case is of money laundering and has been detected by a sensitive department.