LAHORE: The International Police (Interpol) has issued red notices for four suspects said to be involved in the Eden Housing scam.
According to reports, the international organisation has issued the notices for Muhammad Amjad, Murtaza Amjad, Mustafa Amjad and Anjum Amjad.
Muhammad Amjad, reports suggest, has filed a Rs 13 billion bargain plea request with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Last month, Murtaza Amjad, the son-in-law of former chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, was arrested in Dubai in connection with the scam.
“The ex-CJP’s son-in-law has been arrested in connection to a scam pertaining to a private housing scheme, Eden Housing,” Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry informed reporters at the time.
“We have made a big breakthrough in the Eden Housing scam,” he asserted, while adding that Murtaza was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials from Dubai and that the NAB had issued his arrest warrants.
The information minister further claimed that the father-in-law of the ex-CJP’s daughter is the owner of the housing scheme which is why “Iftikhar Chaudhry had heard the cases pertaining to the housing scheme himself and granted them relief”.
“200 to 300 families were affected by the scam and thousands of people invested their hard-earned money in it but were cheated of it,” Chaudhry added.
He further said, “The ex-CJP’s son, Arsalan Iftikhar, his daughter and his son-in-law’s father are also accused in the case.”
Amjad and his two sons fled to Canada in April this year as their names were not placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) even as NAB had asked the Interior Ministry to do so.
The Eden group holds property worth approximately Rs 20 billion, according to NAB.
