SEOUL, Nov 6: South Korean police said on Thursday they had arrested five Pakistanis over illegal cash transfers worth millions of dollars, including payments from Afghanistan’s Taliban for material for heroin production.

The five are accused of operating two “hawala” money transfer networks in South Korea since 2005, police said.

Police say the hawala networks, widely used in the Middle East, provide a fast way to transfer money both for illegal foreign workers and terrorists.—AFP