ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has summoned PTI leader Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Khan Tareen in a money laundering and sugar mill fraud case.

Ali Tareen has been summoned to appear at the FIA Lahore office on September 18 (Friday) while his father has been summoned on September 19.

They will be asked questions about fraud in their sugar mills and money laundering as well as where they got the capital for several other businesses owned by them.

In August, the FIA and SECP launched a money laundering investigation against Tareen and 21 other individuals named in the sugar inquiry commission report.

A combined investigation team of the FIA and SECP wrote letters to different departments, seeking the records of 22 individuals associated with the sugar business.

The investigation team sought details of transactions made by the Tareen-owned JDW Sugar Mills as well as the loans issued to it by the Bank of Punjab and Faisal Bank.

On the other hand, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) senior leader Jahangir Khan Tareen Thursday said that the allegations which have been leveled against him by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) are baseless.

Jahangir Tareen said in his statement that a self-made case has been created against him. He questioned that how the recent surge in sugar prices is related to the transactions which were made several years ago.

The FIA has summoned me after putting unsubstantiated allegations against me, he said while adding that his son Ali Tareen has also been dragged in the case without any proof. NNI