A Bahawalnagar resident on Saturday unknowingly turned out to the owner of four textile mills worth millions of rupees, in the latest of a string of money laundering cases emerged in the country.
Saleem Feroz Bhatti, who works at a local estate agency, was issued a notice by the Federal Bureau of Revenue (FBR) in connection with the ownership.
Bhatti lives in a rented accommodation and earns Rs 15,000 per month. The FBR notice states that the man is the owner of four textile mills.
Moreover, Bhatti has asked the Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar to deposit the funds found in his name to the dams’ fund.
Earlier on October 15, it was discovered that billions of rupees existed in four bank accounts of a man who died four years ago in Karachi. Muhammad Iqbal Ansari, a resident of Shadman Town, passed away in a hospital located on the city’s Shaheed-e-Millat Road on May 9, 2014. The fake bank accounts were opened in late Ansari’s name after his death. Transactions involving around Rs 4.6 billion took place since then.
Published in Daily Times, October 28th 2018.
