ISLAMABAD: An FIA report has revealed that jewelers from Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore have smuggled gold worth Rs 35 billion out of the country in one year on fake customs documents.
FIA in its reported submitted to the Ministry of Interior said that this gold was smuggled out mostly via Karachi in one year between 2010 and 2011.
The report also said four suspects were arrested on charges of involvement in the crime and it is being ascertained whether the money involved in the illegal transaction was used through Hundi for financing terrorism.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan was briefed that the jewelers had threatened to stage a protest over the arrest of the accused.
Chaudhry Nisar directed FIA to step up the investigation into the scam by rejecting all kinds of pressures or influences.
