Money Laundering Case Against Altaf Hussain Adjourned Till Oct 10

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Thursday adjourned the hearing of a money laundering case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder leader Altaf Hussain and others at the defense counsel request

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2019 ):An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Thursday adjourned the hearing of a money laundering case against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder leader Altaf Hussain and others at the defense counsel request.

The MQM leader along with former minister Babar Ghauri, former senator Ahmed Ali, former Karachi deputy mayor Arshad Vohra, Khawaja Sohail, Khawaja Rehan and others have been booked in the money laundering case.

At the outset of the hearing, the defense counsel Sardar Latif Khosa disclosed before the court that decision of Sindh High Court (SHC) was still pending in the matter where they had challenged the interior ministry's decision for transferring the case to Islamabad.

He prayed for adjournment in the case till the decision of SHC which the court accepted and granted the same.

It may be mentioned that a first information report (FIR) had been registered against the accused on the complaint of Sarfaraz Anwar Merchant that the MQM and its charity wing Khidmat-i-Khalaq Foundation (KKF) were maintaining different bank accounts for money laundering.

The money generated from various illegal activities like extortion, murders, kidnappings for ransom, land grabbing and China-cutting was laundered.

The hearing will be resumed on October 10.