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Summary Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai was charged with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai was charged in July in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, with conspiracy to violate the Foreign Agents Registration Act and lying to federal agents. The plea agreement hearing is to take place before US District Judge Liam O’Grady, according to the docket, which doesn’t specify the nature of the agreement.Prosecutors said Fai helped move about $4 million from Pakistan’s government through the Washington-based Kashmiri American Council to sway US lawmakers with campaign contributions and other lobbying activities.An FBI affidavit said Fai received $500,000 to $700,000 a year from Pakistani intelligence, but never disclosed those links while serving as a supposedly independent lobbyist on Kashmir, a region whose control is sharply disputed by Pakistan and India.A court paper indicated Fai is likely to enter a plea on a broad conspiracy charge and a second count of impeding the Internal Revenue Service. The charges filed against Fai in July were more specific, accusing him of a conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent.According to the affidavit, Fai worked for more than a decade to influence public opinion in the US and Congress on Kashmir. A cooperating witness told the FBI that 80 percent of Fais efforts were specifically dictated to him by the ISI, as Pakistans spy service is known.Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai was the executive director of the Kashmiri American Council at the time of his arrest.
