MQM’s Imbisat Mallick gets early release from jail

LONDON: Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s London-based central co-ordination committee member Imbisat Mallick has been released early from the Briton jail after settling his case at the court.
Imbisat Mallick was jailed in January this year for 21 months but was released early on August 14 in a case linked with the wider money-laundering investigation that was started by the Scotland Yard during the ongoing murder investigation of Dr Imran Farooq, the former MQM senior leader killed on 16 September 2010.
Mallick was found guilty in a mortgage fraud case at the Isleworth Crown Court late December last year but was sentenced to 21-month imprisonment on January 24 this year after accepting that he had made false presentation to the bank but interestingly the bank said it had no issues with Mr Mallick’s mortgage as he had paid all his monthly installments on time.
Imbisat’s house was raided for the first time in June 2013 when Scotland Yard raided several properties of MQM-linked leaders, including the North West London residence of the MQM leader Altaf Hussain. Imbisat’s house was raided in July last year as part of the same raids, linked with Dr Imran Farooq murder and the money-laundering investigation.
There is a feeling within the MQM that Imbisat had not committed any crime but someone from within the MQM passed such information to the police that brought him to the police attention. Imbisat is married to the daughter of veteran London-based veteran MQM leader Muhammad Anwar.
Around two dozen Counter Terrorism Command Unit officers had raided Mallick’s house but found only a few hundred pounds in cash and took away with them almost all documents that showed that Mallick had obtained mortgage of his house while being unemployed.
It is almost a standard routine practice that people get mortgage from the banks giving exaggerated information about the sources of their income and the banks easily accept these explanations but in the case of Imbisat Mallick the situation became complicated due to the high-profile investigations into the MQM’s UK affairs.
It is also to be mentioned that no link was found of money laundering involvement of Mr Mallick at any level. Imbisat Mallick’s lawyers had appealed his conviction pleading that he had been convicted on wrong grounds.