Probe into mega corruption cases to be expedited: Amir Farooqui

KARACHI: Former DIG East Amir Farooqui has taken over the charge of the Director FIA Sindh Zone and has been posted to enhance the performance of the Agency in province suffering long from institutional rot.

Farooqui is reputed to be an honest and a merit observant officer posted to improve the performances of FIA. Earlier as the DIG South, he had registered an FIR against the brother of a provincial minister following which he was transferred to FIA headquarters, as head of cybercrime and immigration. He instead contributed to their perfromance. It is pertinent to mention that he gave his first exclusive interview to ‘Daily Jang’, after being posted in Sindh.

Talking about his future ventures, Director FIA said that his priority is to investigate money laundering cases under Anti-Money Laundering Act-2010 and to register cases against them besides winding up inquiries in other pending investigations. Farooqui said he would also try to get the criminals convicted after thorough investigations and added he would keep the cybercrime cell and counter-terrorism wing under watch as the director FIA. In the past, he said the FIA was defamed due to some officials of the cybercrime cell against whom a report has been compiled, and further action would be taken soon.