{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_2ghmpszpq6lhdwppm6sq","title":"Money laundering cases can proceed without awaiting tax cases: LHC","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/money-laundering-cases-can-proceed-without-awaiting-tax-cases-lhc-2ghmpszpq6","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_2ghmpszpq6lhdwppm6sq","seq":313283,"kind":"article","title":"Money laundering cases can proceed without awaiting tax cases: LHC","url":"https://www.brecorder.com/news/40441518/money-laundering-cases-can-proceed-without-awaiting-tax-cases-lhc","summary":"ISLAMABAD: The Lahore High Court has ruled that money laundering is a separate crime in its own right. The Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) does not have to wait for a person’s income tax case to be fully decided before it starts a money laundering investigation. The judgment was given by a two member bench of Mr. Justice Khalid Ishaq and Justice Hassan Nawaz Makhdoom in Writ Petition No. 2928 of 2026 and related cases. The petitions had challenged the powers and actions of…","published":"2026-09-27T23:13:47Z","seen":"2026-09-27T23:34:43Z","lang":"en","country":"PK","source":{"id":"kite-brecorder-com-2d523e","name":"brecorder.com","domain":"brecorder.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q59705","name":"Business Recorder","type":"newspaper","designations":["newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-brecorder-com-2d523e","topics":["pakistan"],"authors":["author"],"entities":[{"id":"Q40605","name":"Large Hadron Collider","type":"org"}],"image":"https://i.brecorder.com/thumbnail/2026/09/28014445fc142ff.webp","story":"st_2ghmpszpq6lhdwppm6sq","category":"crime-law","category_p":0.5699999928474426,"category2":"economy-business","sentiment":"neutral","tone":-0.23000000417232513,"political":0.46000000834465027}]}