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Pakistan c.bank suspends exchange company licence
Reuters - Tuesday, November 11
KARACHI, Nov 10 - Pakistan's central bank suspended on Monday the licence of a prominent foreign exchange company as part of an investigation into illegal transfers abroad that comes as the country faces a sharp fall in foreign reserves.
Pakistan is struggling with a balance of payments crisis and the rupee has lost about 24 percent against the dollar this year. There have been reports of people making heavy withdrawals from their foreign currency accounts and sending money abroad.
Police said on Saturday investigators had arrested four foreign currency dealers on suspicion of illegally sending money abroad.
Among the four were two of the top officials of the Khanani and Kalia International company, police said.
The State Bank of Pakistan said on Monday it had suspended the company's licence with immediate effect "for a period of 30 days pending further investigation/notice, for violation of ... rules and regulations".
Officials at Khanani and Kalia were not immediately available for comment.
Newspapers have reported $10 billion had been illegally transferred out of the country in one year.
But Tariq Pervez, director general of the Federal Investigation Agency, a police department that investigates financial crime, declined to say how much money was involved. He said the amount would be known after an investigation.
In May, the State Bank of Pakistan stopped exchange companies from sending cash abroad in dollars, sterling, euro, and United Arab Emirate dirham in an effort to stabilise the rupee.
Foreign reserves have fallen sharply from a high of $16.5 billion in October last year to $6.76 billion on Nov. 1.
The rupee was trading firmer at 80.65/75 to the dollar in the interbank market on Monday compared with Saturday's closing of 81.00/10. (Reporting by Sahar Ahmed; Editing by Robert Birsel and Paul Tait)
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