LAHORE: Pakistan has “compelling evidence” on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder’s involvement in money-laundering, said international law specialist Toby Cadman on Friday.
Cadman was speaking to a local tv channel at Heathrow Airport, after having visited Pakistan for two days to meet the senior officials of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), who registered a case of money-laundering against the MQM’s London-based leader on the complaint of Sarfraz Merchant.
Speaking at the occasion, he said: “I can confirm the hate speech and incitement was amongst those discussions, as was the allegation of money-laundering and proceeds of crime.”
“Various cases against the party and its founder,” brought under discussion with two institutions, he told the media.
He said “the quality of information that has been collected by officials, which, I believe is a comprehensive file that they now have and which we can present to the Metropolitan Police.”
Cadman said: “The evidence that I have seen is compelling and it puts into question the decisions that were made by the Met police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in the past , and of course they will have to reconsider their position now, as we just saw a couple of days ago that the Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said that the Met police and the CPS will be given all the resources that they need to investigate the incitement cases, and of course, we will be going back to the Met police over the next couple of days to discuss the money-laundering allegations.”
He said the money-laundering investigation in the UK has been “suspended but certainly hasn’t been closed and all those who were suspects, in the beginning, remain suspects”.
