Harris Group sends legal notice to BoP chief

The Harris Group has served a legal notice to the Bank of Punjab president.
Sheikh Afzal in the notice has taken the stance that the bank has usurped his moveable and immovable property in Pakistan as well as Dubai on fake and forged documents and has sold them at throwaway prices.
According to the Harris Steel Mills spokesman, the Foreign Office has also declared those documents bogus.
He said that a very expensive villa in Dubai, properties in Pakistan, shares, vehicles, watches and gold jewellry worth billions of rupees were sold out through a group of crooked bankers and businessmen in connivance with Aftab Ahmed, an officer of the National Accountability Bureau.
The notice has asked the bank to withdraw its teams from the illegal sale of Harris Group’s properties and hand over the keys of the said property along with all expensive articles to them forthwith. According to the spokesman, in case of no cooperation, Sheikh Afzal will take appropriate legal action in criminal as well as civil jurisdictions in Dubai and Pakistan. The spokesman also said BoP official Naeemuddin is using his office to create hurdles to the settlement of a plea bargain. The plea bargain should have been filed some three years back. The spokesman appealed to the Supreme Court to take notice of the bogus auction of the moveable and immoveable properties of the owners of Harris Steel Mills.