KARACHI: In a major setback for Shaheen Air International (SAI), the Saudi prince who had expressed willingness to invest in the airline pulled out from the deal to bail it out.
According to a report in Express Tribune, SAI’s Chief Marketing Officer Zohaib Hassan told that the airline hasn’t announced any precise closure, however, its offices had been shut for the last two weeks.
He added, they were waiting for resumption of work.
The Saudi investor withdrew from the deal after becoming aware of the legal troubles surrounding SAI, told an employee who declined to be named.
The employee went on to share when it comes to knowledge, that offices of a business you are investing have been sealed by the authorities means they aren’t happy and wouldn’t want to mess with them.
SAI’s fortunes tumbled in April this year when it defaulted on payments of taxes and fee to the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) to the tune of Rs1.3 billion.
Moreover, SAI payables include billions of rupees to catering services, ground handling companies, fuel suppliers, banks and lessors’ entities which give aircraft on lease and hotels.
Also, SAI’s operating licence and fitness certificates for its aircraft have lapsed, due to which its operations closed.
The lessor Aercap Ireland has with the help of the Irish embassy taken back SAI’s eight aircraft.
why is no one investigating the matter. A JIT is required to probe into this issue. This is a matter of huge money laundering and Scam the Sehbai brothers did with this country. 5000 employees are effected that are direct and Indirect what about their families. The head count of the affected goes to 20000 people.
Allah is watching
Allah is watching
Our prayers too wait and lets pray for our chuldren who are out of schools unis no justice in this country
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