Model Ayyan Ali cannot get back her half a million dollars until she files an appeal with the Collector of Adjudication, Islamabad.
A senior official of the customs prosecution wing revealed that the model Ayyan Ali will have to file an appeal with the Collector of Adjudication to get her money back.
On March 14 Customs officials arrested Ayyan at Benazir Bhutto International Airport, Islamabad after recovering US $506,800 from her luggage. The amount was seized by customs.
Although Ayyan was released on bail on July 16, she cannot travel abroad or get back her money and passports.
“She even had to inform the trial court before leaving for Karachi after the court proceedings ended,” the official said told a local media.
According to the custom official, if the collector of adjudication rejects her appeal, she will have to file another appeal with the Customs Tribunal, then the Islamabad High Court and eventually the Supreme Court provided all of her appeals were rejected at lower levels.
“Neither she, nor the trial court, asked customs for the custody of her passports or her mobile phones, which are being kept as ‘case property’ with customs,” the legal expert said to a local media. “All her belongings were confiscated by customs in March, including her two passports,”he said.
