Tag: Fia

FIA DG says sorry but SC says it’s not satisfied

Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Muhammad Iqbal on Monday tendered an unconditional apology in the Supreme Court (SC) for interfering in the...

FIA stops US citizen from leaving Pakistan

A US citizen Aaron Mark DeHaven was trying to leave the country from Peshawar airport while Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) stopped him from leaving...

FIA DG is incompetent, says CJP

The Supreme Court on Friday directed Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Muhammad Iqbal, Additional Director General Syed Jawed Ali Bokhari and Director...

FIA’s Haj probe team returns

The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) team probing into the Haj scam returned disappointed from Saudi Arabia last Tuesday, as it failed to investigate a...

FIA arrests Hamesh Khan’s friend for Rs 50m fraud

FIA police has arrested Karam Dad Bhatti, a close friend of former Bank of Punjab president Hamish Khan, for the alleged embezzlement of Rs...

SC holds FIA DG in contempt for ‘interfering’ in court affairs

The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court notice to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Malik Iqbal for removing FIA Additional...

FIA fails to find evidence against Kazmi

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has so far failed to produce any evidence of corruption against former religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi. Kazmi is...

SC rejects FIA report on Haj scandal

Rejecting a report by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) into the Haj scam, the Supreme Court on Friday directed agency’s director general to produce...

NAB, FIA officers’ warrants issued

An accountability court on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Punjab National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Deputy Director (Intelligence) Muhammad Rafi and FIA Inspector Raees...

FIA directed to file complete challan against Moonis

Special judge banking offence (central) Malik Abdul Rasheed on Tuesday adjourned the hearing of NICL scam ase against Moonis Elahi until May 12. The...

SC tells FIA to reverse transfers of Haj scam investigators

The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday told the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general to bring back the officers who were investigating the Haj...

Moonis undergoes medical checkup: declared healthy

, April 25(Online): Moonis Elahi involved in NICL fraud case was thoroughly checked up by doctors at Punjab Institute of Cardiology(PIC) on...

FIA directed to file complete challan against Moonis

LAHORE - Special Judge Banking Offence (central) on Tuesday adjourned the hearing
of the NICL scam against Moonis Elahi till May 3. Earlier, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) authorities produced Moonis in court seeking adjournment to file the complete challan of the case. The court on the request for adjournment from the prosecution, sought the opinion of defence counsel, Muhammad Iqbal Bhatti, who advised the court to give more time to prosecution for the completion of the

FIA team to head to UK to arrest NICL scam accused

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday revealed that it had decided to send a team to the UK to arrest Amin Qasim Dada, the main accused in the National Insurance Corporation Ltd scam.
The announcement was made at a press conference in Karachi by FIA Sindh Director Moazzam Jah. "The decision to this effect was made after FIA issued a Red Warrant for Dada," Jah said, referring to the international arrest warrant which a country's government lodges with

Transfer of FIA director probing Haj scam raises eyebrows

ISLAMABAD - With the Supreme Court already annoyed with the government for delaying the implementation of its orders and assignment of investigation into mega scams to honest and upright officials, the government has once again transferred a senior Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) official at the final stage of investigation into the haj scam.
A source in the FIA told Pakistan Today that the transfer of FIA Director Hussain Asghar and his posting as Gilgit-Baltistan inspector

Moonis is guilty as charged, FIA tells SC

ISLAMABAD - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday informed the Supreme Court that available documentary evidence incriminated MPA Moonis Elahi, son of PML-Q leader Pervez Elahi, of involvement in the NICL scam.
The FIA also informed the court that Rs 1.68 billion had so far been recovered, while efforts were underway for recovery of the remaining Rs 42 million. Appearing on notice, FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi submitted a progress report on the scam

SC orders FIA to catch the ‘big fish’ in PSM scam

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take action against the accused involved in over Rs 22 billion corruption in Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM). A three-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing the case of massive corruption in PSM. The court also directed the industries secretary to continue supervising the investigations. During the