PM directs FIA to conduct a crackdown against operators of Hundi/Hawala

November 15, 2018 (MLN): Prime Minister Imran Khan convened a meeting on money laundering on Thursday, and directed FIA to conduct an immediate crackdown throughout the country against all the operators of Hundi/Hawala system, and requested for a comprehensive progress report to be submitted to him on 24^th November.

As per the notification issued by FIA, it was directed that all the field units may be immediately sensitized regarding the instructions received from PM office.

It was further directed that at least five raids be ensured by each zones on daily basis. Raiding parties may also be directed to focus on seizing the laptops, mobiles phone and computers during the raid so that further information/details of the business/rackets involved in the flight of capital and siphoning of money out of Pakistan could be retrieved through forensic audit.

Furthermore, special instructions were issued to the team to focus on the arrest of real owners of the business rather than arresting their employees, and the modus operandi of these owners for the outward transfer of money should be determined so that future strategy to combat the menace could be devised.

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