Two arrested in UAE in Imran Farooq murder, money laundering

DUBAI: Two people have been arrested in connection with Dr Imran Farooq murder and money laundering cases being probed by London Metropolitan Police and Scotland Yard, sources said on Wednesday.

Source told Geo News that one person was arrested in Abu Dhabi and another in Dubai. Both men belong to a Pakistani political party, they added.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for MQM said that no party worker has been arrested and recent arrests made in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have nothing to do with the party.

The British investigators, while probing the Dr Farooq murder, had also grilled Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain after recovering a stock of cash from his residence in London’s Edgware neigbourhood.

Farooq, 50, a founding member of the MQM, was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, northwest London, as he returned home from work on September 16, 2010.