The General Secretariat of the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has officially closed its investigation into British-Pakistani businessman Gibran Khan, clearing him of all allegations made by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) that linked him to an offshore company and former PTI federal minister Moonis Elahi.
Sources said Interpol found no evidence of misconduct after completing its independent assessment into the FIA’s claims, which alleged that Gibran Khan had acted as a “frontman” for Moonis Elahi through an offshore firm, General Mediterranean Holding SA.
The Interpol Secretariat certified that Khan, 49, was not the subject of any notice, diffusion, or criminal request based on Pakistan’s submissions.
The FIA’s request, made three years ago, sought Red Notices for both Moonis Elahi and Gibran Khan following the fall of the PTI-led governments in the Centre and Punjab.
In legal representations to both the FIA and Interpol, Khan’s lawyers disputed the FIA’s assertions about General Mediterranean Holding SA, stressing that neither Khan nor the Elahi family ever had any ownership of the company.
The lawyers established that although a legal entity, General Mediterranean Holding SA SPF is not owned by Gibran Khan or any Pakistani national. The company is, in fact, part of a Luxembourg-registered international group founded and wholly owned by a British businessman of Iraqi origin, who has regularly appeared on the Forbes high net-worth UK Rich List.
The group owns and operates some 15 luxury five-star hotels worldwide.
The FIA’s earlier claim that Khan’s previous role as CEO of M/S Agro Tractor Private Limited linked him to alleged money laundering was also found to have no supporting evidence by Interpol, said the source.
