KARACHI: SSP Investigation South Tariq Dharejo said on Thursday that the suspect Atif Zaman has admitted before the police that he planned to kill as many as five people after the investors demanded their money back when they learnt that he doesn't own any business.
The police official said that the suspect used to show other's business as his own to take money from investors. "He used to give lent money to people as profit and people started getting attached to him because of greed," he said. “But he started facing issues after he failed to get more clients.”
SSP Dharejo said that a police team is searching for the suspect's brother, Adnan Zaman, who is also believed to be part of the murder of tv anchor Mureed Abbas. The suspect had also attempted to suicide earlier when he failed his Matric exam.
The investigations have revealed that the entire scam was around Rs400-500 million, which also involved smuggling. "People had invested a different amount in the so-called tire business - which was nothing but a smokescreen. Late Mureed Abbas had invested Rs100-120 million in it. " said the official.
The police investigator said that the medical of suspect Atif Zaman shows that he wasn't intoxicated while gunning down Mureed and Khawar.
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Preliminary investigation into the murder of anchorperson Mureed Abbas and his friend Khizar Hayat by prime suspect Atif Zaman has disentangled startling revelations.
Earlier, according to the initial investigation shared by SSP Tariq Dharejo, it was found out that Zaman was employed at a tyre company few years back and was later got involved in smuggling and money laundering.
It has now been revealed, as per the suspect's confessional statement, that more than 100 people had invested in him a total money of a whopping Rs3 billion.
Zaman added that the number of people seeking to invest in his lucrative business had drastically increased over time.
He also said that over 40 people belonging to the media industry had invested heavily in him and he even started a company with the money he had.
However, Zaman further confessed, that most of the money he made was obtained through illegal sources which mainly involved smuggling tyres from Afghanistan.
He said that he got people to trust and confide in him by employing technical antics and faced immense financial crunch after the smuggled goods were confiscated and he had to spend hefty amount of money to retrieve them.
This had caused him to fail to return the due profits to his business partners on time which in turn had made them lose their trust in him, Zaman stated.
He had also purchased several properties in Karachi which he thought he would sell in order to pay back the money to the investors.
However, Zaman said, the way he received abduction threats for wife and son caused him to take such an extreme and vengeful step which eventually resulted in the murder of news anchor Mureed Abbas.
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Investigation in murder case of private TV anchor Mureed Abbas and two others on Friday revealed that the conflict started with Rs5 million reached a total of Rs1 billion scam whereas accused Atif Zaman also had to give Rs170 million to a British woman.
Sources said that Karachi police faced different challenges in the Murdeed Abbas’ murder case as they gathered many evidences and found other investors in the case as well.
Atif Zaman’s investors from London and Dubai have come forth including a British woman who is also said to be in contact with Karachi police.The woman claimed that she had invested Rs170 million in Atif Zaman’s business.
IO said that statements of five persons have already been enscrolled whereas three business partners have also been called. Investigation team expressed that they could leave for Balakot any moment to arrest the suspect.
On the other hand, the court handed over the accused Atif Zaman to police till July 15.
Police asserted that the suspect was unconscious and injured due to which he could not be presented in the court. Atif Zaman will be presented in court in order to seek his physical remand for further investigation.
According to investigation sources, the alleged killer, Atif Zaman, had been doing business under the cover of a company named Infinity.
Moreover, the other person who could be seen in a CCTV footage has been identified as “Adil.”
Moreover, the other person who could be seen in a CCTV footage has been identified as “Adil.”
Reportedly, Zaman had defrauded Rs500 million collectively from at least 70 persons, including 30 to 40 individuals of the media.
Furthermore, the investigation team has recommended including partners of the company, two persons of banking sector and a person named Shoaib in the interrogation of the case.
Sources further revealed that Zaman had also been doing smuggling of tyres, and was in close contact with tyre smugglers in Balochistan.
A few months ago, the accused person had disclosed that someone had stolen Rs250 million from him, and afterwards conflict with his business partners worsened.
Meanwhile, the investigation team has been raiding at suspected hideouts to arrest Adil.
Police on Wednesday formed a five-member committee to probe into the murder of three persons including the anchorperson.
The committee, comprising of SSP South, SSP Clifton, SHO Darakhshan and SIU Darakshan, is being headed by Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tariq Dharejo.
According to initial investigation, police officials had stated that the dispute was of Rs200 million.
The body of the deceased anchorperson was shifted to Islamabad from Karachi. His body was received by his brother at the airport after which it was transported to his native city Mianwali.
Abbas, an anchorman working at the private television channel in Karachi, was allegedly shot by his business partner Atif Zaman, who also tried to commit suicide by shooting himself.
He was later admitted to a local hospital with critical injuries, according to Karachi police. Abbas’s friend Khizar Hayat was also shot on the spot and later succumbed to injuries in hospital.
Initial investigations had suggested that Zaman had to pay back a debt to the anchorperson. It is also believed that the alleged killer had threatened him with dire consequences.
Zaman had called the victim to a café in a posh area of Defence in Karachi and shot him and his friend.
The anchorman’s wife Zara Abbas had claimed that Zaman had called her husband at 8pm to collect Rs5 million owed to him. “We had invested our money in his business and he [Zaman] wasn’t giving it back to us and others, he had been making excuses,” she said.
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