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The CJP passed the statement while hearing a case related to opening of fake accounts. The apex court was hearing the case on the plea submitted by Senior Assistant Bank Mohammad Anwar.
Pakistan is facing an economic crisis and money laundering through fake bank accounts is one of the main reasons behind the country’s ongoing economic crisis. As per media reports, during the hearing, the CJP stated that carrying out transactions through fake accounts is a huge crime.
The CJP elaborated that an account was opened with RS100,000 and somehow turned the amount into Rs900,000. The lawyer of the accused said that his client had opened accounts in different branches of the same bank. The CJP said that the accounts are not opened without a verification process and a three-year sentence was quite less in the case.
The incumbent government is reportedly taking all possible measures in order to counter the challenge of fake bank accounts and money laundering.
Former President Asif Ali Zardari is also accused on money laundering through creating fake bank accounts. He has been arrest by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) after his bail plea was rejected by the Islamabad Hugh Court (IHC). It is believed that the former president misused his authority and helped creating fake bank accounts which caused heavy losses to the national exchequer.
Sources said that Zardari is to be interrogated in the fake bank accounts case, on the basis of interrogation and relies on a supplementary reference which may be filed against him. So far, the NAB has arrested 12 key men of Zardari in the fake bank accounts scam, they include Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Arif Khan(Suspicious transactions in the accounts of titled A One International, Summit Bank) Abdul Jabbar, Muhammad Shabbir (M/s Pink Residency), Sher Ali (HBL), Muhammad Farooque Abdullah (Ex-Area Manager and Branch Manager HBL—M/s Parthenon Private Limited of M/s Park Lane Estate PVT Ltd), Ex-Director Land KDA Najam-uz-Zaman, Ex-Director Special Initiative Department M/s Harish & Company Hassan Aly Memon, Muhammad Hanif (Accountant of M/s Park Lane Estate Pvt Ltd and company secretary of M/s Parthenon Pvt Ltd), Muhammad Saleem Faisal (General Manager M/s Tracom Pvt Ltd (front Company of M/s Parathenon Private Limited, M/S Park Lane Estate Pvt Ltd), Muhammad Iqbal Khan Noori (Director of M/s M/s Parathenon Private Limited, M/S Park Lane Estate Pvt Ltd).
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The incumbent government is reportedly taking all possible measures in order to counter the challenge of fake bank accounts and money laundering.