LONDON/ISLAMABAD: The British National Crime Agency (NCA) officials have dropped money-laundering investigation against British-Pakistani businessman Farhan Junejo after seeing no solid evidence against him for his alleged involvement in £8 million laundering allegations.
The Assets Recovery Unit of Pakistan, headed by former SAPM Shehzad Akbar, had filed this money-laundering case against Mukhtar Junejo, claiming him to be the front-man of late Makhdoom Amin Faheem of PPP.
The British National Crime Agency (NCA), the lead law enforcement agency of the United Kingdom fighting organized crime; human, weapon and drug trafficking; cybercrime; and economic crime, had been probing Junejo and his alleged ties with politicians in Pakistan and for allegedly laundering money on their behalf.
In Sept 2018, the NCA had taken into custody Mukhtar Junejo and his wife in London, Samaa TV reported today.
“The NCA has closed this investigation,” NCA Senior Communications Officer Kerri Fitzpatrick told Samaa TV’s Investigation Unit through electronic communication.
The agency continued that they will “take no further action unless compelling new evidence of criminality is identified.
Pakistan’s Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) – then headed by the former special assistant to the prime minister on accountability Shahzad Akbar, had filed a case of money laundering and corruption against Junejo with the NCA.
The ARU contended that Junejo was wanted in a money laundering case linked to the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP).
The Asset Recovery Unit believed that Junejo acted as a frontman for late Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Makhdoom Amin Faheem. Late Makhdoom Amin Faheem was Minister of Commerce of PPP in 2015, when he died of illness.
