RAWALPINDI: Federal Board of Revenue’s (FBR) Inland Revenue wing has summoned a Karachi-based woman, who bought Ayyan Ali an apartment for about Rs15 million, for grilling in connection with the supermodel’s money laundering case.
FBR officials have already called Ayyan’s mother Farhat Sultana and Najeeb Haroon, whom the model sold her plots, for investigation. Ayyan had claimed to interrogators that the $500,000 she was caught with at Islamabad airport on March 14, before she could board a flight to Dubai, were the proceeds of “files” of five plots in Bahria Town she had sold to Najeeb Haroon through the deal-maker Mumtaz Hussain.
The FBR is investigating whether any taxes were evaded in the process. Its investigators had also been looking into the possibility that the ‘flight of capital’ was meant for criminal activities but so far have found no such evidence.
Meanwhile, the Bahria Town administration has rejected Ayyan’s claim that she owned plots there.
