HARIPUR, Nov 13: The court of judicial magistrate here on Thursday sent two money-changers, arrested on charges of involvement in illegal business of ‘Hundi’, to jail on judicial remand.

The accused recorded their confessional statement before the court, saying they had been doing Hundi business for several years.

According to assistant director Saleh Mohammad of FIA Hazara Circle, FIA authorities have written to branches concerned of different banks for sealing the accounts of the Bismillah Money-changers.

Officials of the Federal Investigation Agency had, during a raid on the Bismillah Money-changers, Haripur, a franchise of the Khanani & Kalia International, arrested two cashiers while the owners had managed to sneak out minutes before the raid.

The FIA authorities had seized 3,000 Canadian dollars, 2,300 Saudi Riyals, some pound sterling, US dollars and Pakistani rupees and sealed the franchise after confiscating the record, computers, cheque books of different banks and other related record.

A case had also been registered against the owners, Tariq Aziz and Wajid Mehmood, sons of Abdul Aziz, and their two employees Mansoor and Tanveer under sections 4, 5 and 23 of the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947.

The arrested accused, Mansoor and Tanveer, were produced before the judicial magistrate, FIA Hazara Circle, where they recorded their statements under section 164 of CrPC, confessing that their franchise had been doing the business of Hundi to the tune of Rs120 million a month. They were sent to the Haripur jail while raids are being conducted to arrest of the franchise owners.

KILLED: Two people, including a woman, were killed when they were ‘accidentally hit by bullets’ in the Khalabat Township police area here on Thursday.

Police quoted one Nasir of the Meelam village as saying that he along with his wife Noreen Bibi, 27, and children was in his room when somebody knocked the door at around midnight. As he was constantly receiving threats, he took his loaded 12 bore shotgun and his wife went to respond to the call. As she reached the door, his shotgun went off accidentally, injuring his wife. She died on the way to hospital, the man told police.

In another incident in the area, Mohammad Azam, 42, son of Sher Mohammad of the Nara village, was participating in a marriage ceremony when some villagers started firing in the air and one of the bullets hit him in the head, killing him on the spot, according to police.