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it makes around 240-245 million in USD , which is a good addition to our foreign reserves ..
120 million pound is cash in bank so that should be immediately transferable but we have to sell the apartment
 
UK's National Crime Agency agrees to £190m settlement with Malik Riaz's family

December 03, 2019


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"The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan." – AFP/File
The National Crime Agency (NCA) of the United Kingdom has agreed to a settlement worth £190 million with the family of property tycoon Malik Riaz.

"The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan," read a statement by the agency.


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The NCA has agreed a £190m settlement with a family that owns large property developments in Pakistan and elsewhere after a frozen funds investigation.

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The £190 million settlement is the result of an investigation by the NCA into Malik Riaz Hussain, a Pakistani national, whose business is one of the biggest private sector employers in Pakistan.


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The NCA has accepted a settlement offer of £190 million, which includes a UK property – 1 Hyde Park Place, London, W2 2LH – valued at approximately £50 million and all of the funds in the frozen accounts.

The assets will be returned to the State of Pakistan.

"In August 2019, eight account freezing orders were secured at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in connection with funds totalling around £120 million. These followed an earlier freezing order in December 2018 linked to the same investigation for £20 million. All of the account freezing orders relate to money held in UK bank accounts," said the agency.

The Assets Recovery Unit (ARU) also confirmed the development, saying that UK's NCA had "agreed to an out of court settlement [...] with a Pakistani family that owns large property developments in Pakistan and elsewhere".

A statement, released from the office of Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability Shahzad Akbar, said that Britain had agreed to an "immediate repatriation" of the funds received after the settlement and hailed it as a "success story of close cooperation between the United Kingdom and Pakistan’s multiple law enforcement agencies and efforts made since last year’s Justice and Accountability Partnership created between the two countries".

According to ARU's statement, the court proceedings were "against the funds themselves, not against any named individual".

"The settlement is a civil matter and does not represent a finding of guilt," the statement emphasised.

Furthermore, the ARU revealed that the property included in the settlement was sold to the family in 2016 by Hassan Nawaz, former premier Nawaz Sharif's son.

Earlier this year in March, the Supreme Court of Pakistan accepted an offer of Bahria Town (Pvt) Ltd – owned by Malik Riaz – to settle cases pertaining to its Malir or Karachi Superhighway project in lieu of payment of Rs460 billion.

The deal was struck when the counsel representing the developer agreed to enhance their offer to Rs460bn from the earlier Rs450bn.

“The offer is accepted,” Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed had declared after a brief hearing about implementation of the court’s judgement of May 4, 2018 in which it was held that grant of land to the Malir Development Authority (MDA) by the Sindh government, its exchange with the land of private land developers (Bahria Town) and anything done under provisions of the Colonisation of Government Land Act 1912 by the provincial government was illegal and of no legal existence.

The acceptance of the offer by the apex court restrained the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) from filing references against the directors and officials of Bahria Town. However, in case of default in payment of the settlement amount during the period agreed to under the deal (which has been reduced to seven years from eight), NAB will be free to file corruption references against the developer, but after prior permission of the court.
 
120 million pound is cash in bank so that should be immediately transferable but we have to sell the apartment

120 mln pound is still better than nothing, so even a few hundred million dollars increase in our Foreign reserves is good . Hopefully more such settlements are done to bring looted money back to Pakistan . We need money a lot of infrastructure development .
 
Good recovery, hopefully this is the start and more to come:pop:
 
Good Lord, there is never a dull moment in Pakistani cricket and politics.

So basically Nawaz's babblu sold property to Malik Riaz's son Ali Raiz when Panama came to fore. I wouldnt be wrong if I say one thief sold a property to another thief...

I dont mind Nawaz, Zardari etc leaving the country if money will be returned to Pakistan like this.

More to the point, I really, really hope that media's accountability will begin soon too.

I really hope its first drop of rain !!!

I reckon this is relevant.
 
if i owned a car and sold that car to somenoe else. and that someone is caught smuggling drugs in that car, then i shouldn't be the one to get any blame.


^^^^ response that i got from PMLN fan-boy who are still supporting NS. They are saying that the main culprit is Malik Riaz and it has nothing to do with NS, Hussain Nawaz etc.
 

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