FBR stopped from prosecuting Ayyan Ali

ISLAMABAD: The FBR has been stopped from prosecuting model Ayyan Ali on allegation of concealment of income and evading millions of rupees taxes, The News has learnt.
Tax authorities have prepared a case against model Ayyan Ali for concealment of alleged income worth millions of rupees but now this process has been stopped and no one is ready to talk on this subject with the media.
The FBR authorities have prepared a case under section 192 A of Income Tax Ordinance related to prosecution on concealment of income which states that where, in the course of any proceedings under this Ordinance, any person has either in the said proceedings or in any earlier proceedings concealed income or furnished inaccurate particulars of such income and revenue impact of such concealment or furnishing of inaccurate particulars of such income is five hundred thousand rupees or more shall commit an offence punishable on conviction with imprisonment up to two years or with fine or both.
When contacted the FBR’s high-ups on Sunday, they said that there was no interest among FBR machinery to support any alleged tax evaders including Ayyan Ali if the FBR possessed documentary proof against them. “We would certainly move if tax evasion could be proved before special judge under concealment of income related section of Income Tax Ordinance 2001,” they added.
According to FBR’s investigation, Ayyan possesses National Tax Number (NTN) but she has never filed income tax returns. During the investigation process, the FBR issued notices to different entities to ascertain facts in the money laundering case. In reply to notice titled u/s 176 regarding information in the case of M/S Ayyan having CNIC-35201-9421952-6 and National Tax Number (NTN) 3966645-0, the Bahria Town stated that Ayyan Ali never owned any plot/property in any area of the Bahria Town projects located in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi.
However, Ayyan Ali possessed a flat in DHA Karachi with apartment

number-4, flat# 8, Block C in Creek Vista-VIII measuring 3248 sq feet.According to DHA letter, this apartment has been purchased in September 2011 from Ms Sabiha Younas. Ayyan Ali was not the original allottee but she purchased this apartment at a later stage. Her bank account however did not show any transaction in this regard.
Ms Ayyan Ali has a bank account in a bank located at Karachi and according to her bank statement she possessed deposit in the range of around Rs3.5 million to Rs4 million in her account number 6-1-24-20311-714-131426.
In October 2014, two major transactions were made from her account amounting to Rs0.9 million and another 0.9 million in order to avoid issuance of any suspicious transaction report (STRs) from concerned bank under the Money Laundering Law of the country.
She possessed a black VIGO vehicle having estimated value of Rs1.5 million. The FBR’s investigators found that Ayyan Ali undertook 41 foreign trips to different countries. She does not have the nationality of UAE but she possessed business visa of that country.
Ms Ayyan Ali has established a company in Dubai with the name of AA-FZE in Free Trade Zone of Jabal-e-Ali. The FBR has found that she established this company to get visas for her close relatives including her mother Farhat Sultana and her brother Zulfiqar by providing 6000 dirhams.
All this clearly showed that she was allegedly involved in evading taxes and the tax authorities should now prosecute her under the relevant tax laws but it is not yet known who stopped the FBR to prosecute the renowned model after gathering a lot of proof.