LAHORE, Nov 11: The Lahore wing of the Federal Investigation Agency is yet to get the ‘main server’ computer containing complete record of transactions made by the Khanani and Kalia International over the past six months.
Sources told Dawn on Tuesday that FIA personnel working with the help of forensic experts could retrieve only 11 transactions from the computers seized from the company’s Lahore office and one of its branches in Gujranwala.
“The main server was in Karachi with Munaf Kalia. Mr Kalia was handed over to FIA’s Lahore wing on Monday, but not the main server,” the sources said.
The sources said the Lahore FIA had written to its Karachi wing on Tuesday asking for the main server.
They claimed that some ‘influential’ people were trying to arrange a ‘deal’ between the accused and some people in authority.
Meanwhile, the interior ministry has placed the names of 16 relatives of Javed Khanani and Munaf Kalia, directors of Khanani and Kalia International, on the exist control list. According to sources, the relatives include Abdul Manaf Kalia, Awais Khanani, Mumtaz Hamid, Khuram, Shahid Khan, Azmat Mirza, Altaf S. Khanani, Mirza Sultana, Shumaila, Yaqoob Balani, Sikandar, Fouzia Awais, Afshan Sikandar and Mohammad Iqbal.
FIA personnel presented Munaf Kalia before the court of judicial magistrate Faisal Jamil and obtained his seven-day physical remand for interrogation. Mr Kalia was taken to the court amid tight security and he was not allowed to talk to journalists. He was later taken to a lock-up in the FIA building on Temple Road where officials were interrogating the other three accused -- Javed Khanani, Rustam Ali and Tariq Mahmood.
The main charge against the accused is that they were involved in ‘physical’ transfer of foreign currency abroad and in illegal Hawala or Hundi business.