The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested two suspects in a raid on an alleged hawala-hundi network operating from an office in Lyari, and recovered Pakistani and foreign currencies, digital evidence and documents.
According to an FIA spokesperson, the Commercial Banking Circle (CBC) in Karachi raided the office of HMS Institute of Technical Skills, located on the ground floor of Arab Tower in Hangoora Mohalla, Musa Lane. The team arrested Yaser, son of Abdul Ghani, and Abdul Ghani, son of Abdul Razzaq.
Officials recovered Rs600,000, 10,000 UAE dirhams and 16,500 Saudi riyals from the suspects. They also seized several cheque books, three mobile phones and a laptop containing digital evidence linked to hawala-hundi transactions.
The suspects were moved to the CBC police station for legal proceedings. A case has been registered, and investigators are working to identify other members of the network and their links, the spokesperson said.
