ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency has ordered banks to freeze accounts of renowned TikToker Hareem Shah as she boasted of money-laundering and showed video carrying foreign currency notes in London. Real name of TikToker is Fiza Hussain.
On January 12, Hareem Shah posted a video from London and she found herself at the centre of a controversy. In her video, Hareem Shah was showing bundles of foreign currency notes and she boasted of smuggling that amount from Pakistan to the UK.
“So be careful while bringing the amount because you can get caught,” says Hareem in the video. “No one stopped me you know, and they can’t, of course. I came here very easily, but the law in Pakistan works more against the poor, so be wary of that.”
A few hours after the video caused an uproar in social media, the FIA announced a probe into claims of Hareem Shah, who travelled under her real name Fiza Hussain to the UK via Doha, taking a flight from Karachi on January 10. Transferring money through illegal channels amounts to money laundering, stated the FIA.
But she uploaded another video a day later in which she backtracked from her earlier statement. The money in the video came from the sale of her sister’s car in London and the video had been recorded as a prank, claimed Hareem.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), nonetheless, has initiated action against her and sent letters to the banks to close her accounts. At present, Hareem Shah has two bank accounts in Pakistan and her real name is Fiza Hussain.
