KARACHI: Law enforcement agencies (LEA) raided on Tuesday night the offices of Omni Group Chairman Anwar Majeed.
According to reports, a team probing the money laundering charges against Majeed raided his office located near the hockey stadium in Karachi.
During the raid, the investigative team searched the offices and records pertaining to Majeed’s sugar mills, it added.
The former president Asif Ali Zardari’s close aide and Omni Group chairman Anwar Majeed and his son, Abdul Ghani, were also arrested by the FIA in August. Zardari’s other close aide Hussain Lawai was arrested in July in connection with the probe.
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The FIA is investigating 32 people in relation to money laundering from fictitious accounts, including Asif Ali Zardari and his sister FaryalTalpur.
Over 20 ‘benami’ accounts at some private banks were opened in 2013, 2014 and 2015 from where transactions worth billions of rupees were made, according to sources.
The amount, according to FIA sources, is said to be black money gathered from various kickbacks, commissions, and bribes.
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The case was initially registered in 2015 against former Pakistan Stock Exchange chairman Lawai.In August, Lawai and banker TahaRaza were detained and booked for allegedly facilitating the opening of 29 ‘fake’ accounts through which suspicious transactions were made to different companies including Zardari Group.
