KARACHI
The alleged mega money laundering scam upto the tunes of billions of rupees have finally entered into another stage where the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have started search of assets and properties owned by the owners and nine other accused of Creek Marina project.
In latest updates of probe, after submitting an interim challan to the court, the FIA has started hunting of the properties owned by the nine accused including Creek Marina Pakistan, Singapore & Meinhardt Singapore project owner Naseem Shahzad, his son CEO Umar Shahzad, Director Sadia Kashif, Nudrat Mand Khan, others and their families.
The investigation body have sought all necessary details from different concerned organizations and departments including KDA, Bahria Town, DHA, ABAD and others.
According to the details, FIA Banking Circle have registered a case number 14/2023 under Section 25 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act against all the accused.
FIA has urgently sought this information from all these institutions.
It should be noted that the scam of embezzling billions of rupees from citizens and investors in the name of Creek Marina residential project in DHA Phase 8 Karachi was unearthed. As per details, around 300 crores of rupees of fraud has taken place with only allottees all alone.
Instead of constructing the project, the owners embezzled the money for personal benefits and luxuries.
The owners of the project, Nasim Shahzad, the chairman of the Singaporean company MeinHardt, his son CEO Omar Shahzad, Sadia Kashif are still fugitives.
This project was announced to start in 2004 which till date could not be completed and no delivery has been made to anyone.
Sub-Inspector Nasrullah Khan, Investigating Officer of FIA Commercial Banking Circle Karachi, submitted the interim challan to the Banking Court on September 29. Nudrat Mand Khan was arrested on September 15 and is still in jail. Statements of DHA, Allottees and investors who were victims of fraud have also been recorded during the FIA investigations. Further probe is underway.
