Banking Offence (Central) Special Judge Malik Abdul Rasheed on Wednesday recorded the statements of two prosecution witnesses during the hearing of NICL scam case against Moonis Elahi and others, and adjourned the case hearing until June 28. The court recorded the cross examination of defense counsel on prosecution witness FIA Deputy Director Basharat Shahzad Ali who stated that Elahi’s name was not in the initially registered FIR no 24 and his name was included in the FIRs registered afterwards. He further said that FIA had recovered Rs 1.64 billion from Habibullah Warriach while the remaining amount had to be recovered from the accused.
The second prosecution witness, Hina Rabbani, recorded her statement that she had not given any statement before the magistrate; the FIA authorities had engineered statements on her part. The court after recording their statements summoned two remaining prosecution witnesses for June 28. Elahi, his manager, Muhammad Maalik, Rizwan Bhatti and Muhammad Khalil are involved in misappropriation of Rs 220 million while facilitating one of the land deals of the NICL.
Former Haj director’s remand extended: An accountability court on Friday extended the physical remand of former Haj director Rao Shakeel Ahmad, involved in piling up of illegal assets, till June 29. The accused was arrested on charges of maintaining various bank accounts through which heavy transactions had been made by him. Separately, an accountability court sent Javed Iqbal and Muhammad Shafi, partners in Khalid Oil Mills, Vehari, to jail on a judicial remand till June 30.
The accused had been
arrested on the charges of embezzling Rs 4.69 m.
