ISLAMABAD: Abdul Ghani Majeed, the son of Omni Group tycoon Anwar Majeed, on Wednesday, filed a plea in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against issuance of his arrest warrants by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
According to the anti-graft watchdog, the warrants for Majeed in an illegal land allotment case were issued on January 28.
Terming the arrest warrants issued for him “illegal”, Ghani in his plea has asked the court to declare it as null and void.
Ghani Majeed further relayed in his plea that, he is already in the Malir Jail from August 2018, in a case filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), but it failed to submit final challan of the case against him.
The arrest warrants for Abdul Ghani Majeed were issued by NAB Chairman Justice (r) Javed Iqbal.
NAB maintains that Abdul Ghani Majeed had illegally bought a plot in Nehr Khyam area of Clifton, Karachi. The anti-graft body said that the suspect had inflicted loss upon the national exchequer by illegitimately allotting the plot.
A banking court on January 19 had issued a notice to FIA on an application filed by Omni Group tycoon Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed seeking post-arrest bail in the fake bank accounts and money laundering case. The court had directed FIA to submit its response to the bail plea.
The applicants, through their counsel, had contended before the court that the agency had failed to produce evidence to corroborate charges against them. “FIA has been taking action against us on a political basis.” They, therefore, pleaded to the court to grant them bail.
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, close aide Anwar Majeed and others are facing a probe into the money laundering scam involving over Rs35 billion laundered through fake bank accounts.
