The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) filed an appeal in the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday against the acquittal of Axact chief Shoaib Sheikh and other accused by a district court in the money laundering case against them. The two-member SHC bench issued a notice to the Axact chairman, its chief executive officer, and FIA to appear before it on February 15. Moreover, the court also summoned the record of the case proceedings from the district and sessions court that acquitted the accused.
The chief executive and senior officials of Axact, which claims to be the "world's largest IT company" but operates hundreds of fake online universities, were arrested on charges of fraud in May 2015 after an expose` in The New York Times. The FIA has maintained in its petition that the district court did not take into account strong pieces of evidence of money laundering against the suspects.
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