Altaf Hussain has been arrested by Anti-Terrorist operational unit in money laundering case. His house was under observation by various agencies for some time and he was in house arrest situation well before this arrest but now he has been officially arrested. His lawyers went to see him and after he named one lawyer, the lawyer was allowed to meet him. It is noteworthy that British Police do not arrest anyone until and unless they have full proof of the crime.
According to Barrister Amjid Malik who is a member of the supreme court of England has said that according to the laws regarding money laundering implemented in 2007, the maximum penalty for money laundering could be 14 years.
Altaf Hussain has been under arrest for more than eight hours now and he has been appointed a translator in order to record Altaf Hussain’s statement. He has not been allowed to appoint an external translator.
This is not the only case where Altaf Hussain is having trouble but the murder of Imran Farooq has also been connected to MQM and Altaf Hussain. Back in June 2013, Anti-Terrorist unit of police conducted the longest operation in this regard in Northern London that continued for three days.
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Details of Money Laundering
During the investigation of money laundering case, the investigators found a bank account in the name of a Pakistani and according to the statistics, during 2001 to 2005, in 12 transactions; 4.5 million British Pounds were transferred. During December 2005 alone, 2 million British Pounds were transferred to another account and this account was then closed. All the money was sent out of United Kingdom. Within United Kingdom, on 25th of June 2001 7 lac 16 thousand British Pound and on the same date 42,500 British Pound were put into the account. On 25th of June 2001, 7 lac 58 thousand British Pound were added to this account. On 25th of June 2002, 7 lac 96 thousand British Pounds were laundered from this account. Again on the same day 7 lac 58 thousand British Pounds were added to the account and more than 37,000 British Pound were laundered on the same day. Again on the same day 41,000 British Pound were added to the account. On 22nd of December 2004, 1.67 million British Pounds were sent to the account number 65030192. On 23rd of December 2005 0.47 million British Pounds were added to the account number 13616005 and on the same date, a cheque of 1.15 million British Pounds was added to the account.
British authorities are also trying to verify the source and purpose of all this money. As far as the murder of Dr. Imran Farooq is concerned, London metropolitan police and Scotland Yard have spent around 1 Billion British Pounds for the investigation of this murder case and it is noteworthy to mention that in British history of justice, there isn’t a single murder case that has not faced justice.
According to Lord Nazir Ahmad, he has solid proof of involvement of Altaf Hussain in Dr. Imran Farooq murder case and he has handed them over to Metropolitan Police. He said that no one is using him against Altaf Hussain and it is his moral and legal duty to stand against those who are working against Pakistan.
When this news was broken a few hours ago, MQM workers initiated a sit in and they said that this sit in will continue till Altaf Hussain is released.
