The Financial Monitoring Unit (FMU) has referred 636 suspicious financial transactions to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) during last eight years which took action and registered cases. During the period, the FMU, a Department of Ministry of Finance referred 511 suspicious financial transactions to FIA and 125 to NAB for further probe and action.
Giving year-wise details of such referred transactions to FIA, official sources on Monday said during 2008 the number was 27, in 2009 the number was 51, in 2010 the number was 104 and in 2011 the number reached 80 referred transactions. Similarly, during 2012, the FMU referred 81 such transactions to FIA, in 2013 the number of referred transactions was 71, in 2014 49 transactions and in 2015 the unit sent report of 48 such transactions to the Agency.
The sources said FIA registered 97 cases, out of which 15 cases are under investigation, in 31 cases conviction have been made, in 7 cases acquittal have been made whereas 44 cases are under-trial. Furthermore, 177 cases are in inquiry process and 224 cases have been closed due to non-violation of law. About report of such transactions to NAB, the sources said during 2008 its number was 11, in 2009 the number was 02, in 2010 the number was 15, in 2011 the number was 26, in 2012 the number was 21, in 2013 the number was 20, in 2014 the number was 19 and in 2015 the FMU referred report of 11 suspicious financial transactions to NAB. With regard to action, NAB authorised 46 inquires and 8 investigations while references in 5 cases have been filed in the courts. The Bureau has also recovered an amount of Rs 714.112 million on Financial Monitoring Unit's referrals.
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