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FIA Registers Cases Against Shaheen Air

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Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on the complaint of Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has registered a number of cases against defunct Shaheen Air. Cases have been registered upon completion of inquiry.

Shaheen Air owners and shareholders have been nominated in the cases that include offences of money laundering, bounced check.

During the inquiry FIA contacted Financial Monitoring Unit for making arrests.

A number of people nominated in the cases are Canadian nationals.

Nominated people were involved in money laundering of four billion rupees.

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The owners are not in the country. As usual whoever is around is apprehended whether actually involved in the wrong doings or not. When this issue was hot one of the owners had given an interview, the clip was even posted on this forum. He had mentioned the corrupt practices of key authorities in of the national regulator. Shaheen Air is not solely responsible for their fall. The devastating impact in the form of hundreds of staff jobless must not be ignored. About five or six years back I was in a domestic Shaheen Air flight and sat with two young engineers who were in their uniform. They said that their salary was 30-40,000 per month but were content saying that they have a job and were gaining valuable experience. This is just one example.
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What about management of PIA??

Taxes collected on tickets are not being paid to FBR.

CAA is not being paid.

PSO is not being paid.

Yet the airline takes 50 billion a year from the government to survive.

Very good business model.
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Do we have bilateral agreements with Canada for exchange of persons allegedly involve in criminal or financial crimes? Can those be brought to Pakistan from Canada through interpol, to face justice?
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raihans wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 7:51 am Do we have bilateral agreements with Canada for exchange of persons allegedly involve in criminal or financial crimes? Can those be brought to Pakistan from Canada through interpol, to face justice?
Money laundering in Canada is not a joke. If FIA (which I guess filed case against Shaheen on the bases of false shitty accusation by CAA) have prove, they can easily get their 4 billion rupees.
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Amaad Lone wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:30 am What about management of PIA??

Taxes collected on tickets are not being paid to FBR.

CAA is not being paid.

PSO is not being paid.

Yet the airline takes 50 billion a year from the government to survive.

Very good business model.
I was with PIA in 2017. Back then, the income tax deducted on the salaries of PIA employees was also not being paid to FBR. I don't know about now.
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Pakistan loses Canada’s support in Rs10bln tax default case

KARACHI:
Canadian authorities have refused to cooperate with Pakistan in tax recovery from executives of defunct Shaheen Air International living in Canada, sources in Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) said on Thursday.


A senior official at the Large Taxpayers Unit Karachi said the FBR had approached the Canadian authorities for recovery of tax amount of around Rs10 billion.

However, the Canadian authorities have refused to help the Pakistani tax authorities.

The sources said owners/officials of Shaheen Air International left Pakistan after defaulting on the payments of various agencies. The airline also defaulted around Rs10 billion under the head of income tax, sales tax and federal excise. On June 21, 2018, the head office of Shaheen Air International was sealed on failure to make payment of around Rs1 billion under the head of federal excise duty that was collected by the airline from passengers of domestic and international. The airline’s domestic and international operations have been suspended since October 2018 as its 2,800 employees are seeking payment of their salaries for the past few months. They had held demonstrations in major cities.

Airlines operating in Pakistan are responsible for collecting Rs5,000 from air tickets of international passengers and Rs2,500 from domestic passengers. The airlines are also liable to deposit the collected amount from passengers to the national kitty within stipulate timeframe.

The FBR official said the tax authorities are framing charges of illegal transfer of money by the airline to a foreign destination to establish money laundering. “In this way the Canadian authorities shall be bound under international obligation,” the official added. At the same time authorities have launched criminal investigation against Shaheen Air International and its executive and directors for the recovery of losses to the tune of around Rs2 billion.

In this regard, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) asked the FBR to provide details of income tax, sales tax and other tax related matters pertaining to the airline and its board members.

The FIA initiated anti-corruption inquiry lodged by Civil Aviation Authority against chief executive officer, directors and management of Shaheen Air International with the allegation that others in common criminal intention embezzled the amount of the Civil Aviation Authority. Officials at the FBR said the inquiry would pave way for the recovery of tax default amount of Rs10 billion against the airline.

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"The FIA initiated anti-corruption inquiry lodged by Civil Aviation Authority against chief executive officer, directors and management of Shaheen Air International with the allegation that others in common criminal intention embezzled the amount of the Civil Aviation Authority. Officials at the FBR said the inquiry would pave way for the recovery of tax default amount of Rs10 billion against the airline."

Fake BS. Better shutdown CAA. they ruin establish airline, jobless its employees & now lodging baseless cases. CAA/FBR dont have balls & evidence to file case under international law.
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The Federal Investigation Agency has started the process of attaching properties owned by the Shaheen Airlines International (SAI), whose licence has been suspended since 2018, as part of its investigations into a money laundering case against the management, it emerged on Friday.

According to officials and documents reviewed by Dawn, the FIA registered a case against SAI in 2020 for causing a loss of Rs2.1 billion to the Civil Aviation Authority.

Besides, the airline was also accused of causing a loss of Rs200 million to Sialkot Airport, FIA deputy director Rauf Sheikh said.

The airline had also committed `wilful default` amounting to Rs11bn against the Habib Bank Limited and Rs50m wilful default against the United Bank Limited, he said, adding the owners established firms in the UAE and purchased properties in Pakistan and abroad with this money.

The director of FIA`s Sindh zone, Munir Ahmed Sheikh, said the FIA had registered a case against SAI chief executive officer Ehsan Khalid Sehbai and eight other directors on July 13, 2020 on charges of alleged misappropriation of amount payable to CAA.

He said subsequently the suspects `laundered the proceeds of crime` in different bank accounts in Pakistan and abroad. They purchased properties with the proceeds of crime, he alleged. An application filed by the FIA before the district and sessions court, Malir, said: `It is respectfully prayed before this Hon`ble Court that prior permission under the sections 8(1) of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Act 2010 may kindly be accorded for provisional attachment of the properties involved in money laundering.

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Millions of dollars were moved out of Pakistan in the name of aircraft lease payments by Shaheen Air owners in violation of State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) rules/regulations, according to FIA investigation.

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Was the state bank and law enforcement asleep at the time? Just met a handful of old ex shaheen colleagues who seem to be in dire condition. Awful stories of safety oversight esp related to fatigue and duty times, favoritism from CAA and the 2 ceos habits.