MQM founder likely to be indicted in money laundering case today
MQM founder and leaders could be charged as their hearing of money laundering case is today
LONDON (Dunya News) - Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder, Altaf Hussain is likely to be indicted on Wednesday in money laundering case by Scotland Yard.
According to details, Sarfraz Merchant had filed an application in court, in which he wrote that police had confiscated his money and did not return. When court asked police, they said that this money was laundered and they had evidences.
The court asked police to charge the accused and start investigation, to which police replied that they would start invesitgating from 5 October and then would start proper trial.
A money laundering case was lodged against founder of the political party, investigations of which were initiated in July 2013. Hussain was arrested by London Metropolitan Police on June 3, 2014. A large number of enthusiasts, supporting MQM had staged a sit-in in Karachi demanding his release.
Through the course of investigations, Hussain was once interrogated for nine hours in Southwark police station.
He was released on bail four days after his arrest, and was later granted at least four extensions over the passage of time. As claimed by the British law enforcers, large number of wads of cash were seized at his residence in different raids.
Hussain, a British citizen has been living in London in self-imposed exile for over two decades. He was detached with the party, that he had founded, in August over the animosity he had invited after delivering an anti-Pakistan speech to workers of MQM in Karachi via Internet.
Dr Farooq Sattar, a Member of the National Assembly, announced detachment with the founder in a press conference that was held a couple of days after the speech.
He was supported by a number of senior members of MQM including Leader of the Opposition in Sindh Assembly, Khawaja Izharul Hassan.
In the days that followed, Dr Sattar, under whose name the party is registered in Pakistan assumed charge as the chief of MQM Pakistan however, a faction that supported Hussain including Nadeem Nusrat are now referred to as MQM London.
Altaf Hussain had been running MQM allegedly until August through proxy votes given to the coordination committee of the organisation.
