ISLAMABAD: A court on Thursday allowed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to shift former president Asif Zardari’s close aide and Omni Group Chairman Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani from Islamabad to Karachi.
On Wednesday, the FIA took Anwar Majeed into custody outside the Supreme Court, where he and his family had appeared after repeated absences from hearings of a case pertaining to money laundering of Rs 35 billion through fake bank accounts.
During Thursday’s hearing in the court of a judicial magistrate, FIA requested the judge to permit shifting of Anwar Majeed to Karachi.
The court later allowed FIA to shift Majeed and his son to Karachi.
On Wednesday, Shahid Hamid, the counsel for Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani, requested the three-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, that his clients would cooperate with the FIA, therefore, they should not be arrested.
The chief justice, however, said that the court would neither direct nor restrain the FIA from arresting the accused. The FIA, he said, could take whatever steps it deemed necessary.
The accused’s counsels also requested the bench to unfreeze their accounts for disbursing their employees’ salaries, but the court turned down the plea, saying that unfreezing the accounts was also FIA’s decision.
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