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LAHORE - In order to prove his innocence in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) land purchase scam, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi visited the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Office at the Regal Chowk to record his statement but the FIA sent him back again asking him to present his interim bail papers if he had any.
According to details, Moonis, son of former Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, is

LAHORE - Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, visited the Federal Investigation Agency's office in Lahore on Friday to record his statements in the National Insurance Company Limited scam.
However, the FIA officials refused to record Moonis' statement and asked him to appear before the six-member investigation team tomorrow (Saturday) after 3pm as FIA Additional Director General Zafar Qureshi, heading the investigation team, was not in

LAHORE - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) should stop hatching conspiracies against me and remember that next time there will no room for them to flee the country, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) Chaudhry Moonis Elahi said on Thursday.
He was addressing party workers at the Allama Iqbal International Airport after returning to Lahore from abroad. Former Punjab CM Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi's son was given a roaring welcome by party

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza and PML-Q leader Pervaiz Elahi's son Moonis Elahi met at the home minister's house on Wednesday where the two decided that if the PML-N expelled PPP ministers from Punjab, the PPP and PML-Q would form a joint opposition, sources said.
Mirza's private secretary and other department officers, along with police and Rangers personnel provided complete protocol to Moonis when he arrived at the Karachi airport from abroad. Moonis was

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday granted protective pre-arrest bail to Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, against a surety of Rs 0.7 million in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam case.
A division bench of Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar granted the plea for three weeks. The applicant approached the SHC to seek protective pre-arrest bail to avoid being arrested in Sindh after a red warrant

LAHORE - Additional District and Session Judge on Friday adjourned hearing of an application filed by Moonis Elahi challenging the impugned orders passed by judicial magistrate Irfan Basra regarding proclamation of the arrest of the absconder accused applicant till February 19.
Earlier, FIA authorities sought time to submit the reply of said application stating that the relevant record is in FIA's Islamabad office. The application filed by Moonis Elahi through his counsel

LAHORE - A dairy farm of Al-Tahoor, located in Kasur was seized by Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday because it is owned by Moonis Elahi, who is allegedly involved in a land scam of National Insurance Company Limited (NICL). Sources said that the FIA officials on Wednesday raided the said dairy and seized it, taking charge of all the activities.
All the workers are doing their jobs and the aim is to stop the movement of tractors, animals and other possessions from

LAHORE - An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday issued notice to FIA for February 12 on an application filed against the impugned orders by Judicial Magistrate Irfan Basra regarding the issuance of a proclamation for the arrest of Moonis Elahi.
The application has been filed by Moonis Elahi through his lawyer Muhammad Amir, submitting that FIA on Tuesday obtained proclamation orders for the arrest of Moonis who was abroad at that time due to his personal

LAHORE - Judicial Magistrate Irfan Basra on Tuesday issued a proclamation for the arrest of Chaudhry Moonis Elahi for his alleged involvement in the National Insurance Corporation Limited scam. The court adjourned further proceedings until March 11 and directed for affixing the summons outside Moonis' residence and publishing advertisements in newspapers to inform the accused.
The court declared that if the accused did not appear in court at the next date of hearing, all his

ISLAMABAD - The FIA will move the Lahore High Court today (Tuesday) to get Moonis Elahi declared a proclaimed offender (PO) for his alleged involvement in the multi-billion rupee NICL scam. The FIA issued the arrest warrants for Moonis on January 29 after he failed to appear before the investigation team.
The deadline in this regard ends today, a senior FIA official said. He said the agency had also sent a request to Interpol and law enforcement authorities in the United Kingdom

LAHORE - Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has completed all necessary requirements to bring back Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi, and prepared a red-warrant for his arrest.
Sources in the FIA said the security agency would soon contact Interpol to seek Moonis' arrest. Moonis is accused in the NICL land scam, however the PML-Q had said Moonis was being framed in fake cases and he would comeback and face the courts soon.

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Friday included the name of Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, in the watch list and alerted immigration staff of all airports to arrest Moonis on his arrival.
Moonis Elahi is allegedly involved in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) land scam. Sources in the FIA confirmed that Moonis was expected to reach Pakistan on Friday from the UK through flight number EY-241 of Etihad Airlines.

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday requested the British government to seize the bank accounts of Moonis Elahi and Mohsin Habib Warraich, both involved in the Rs 2.5 billion National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam.
The FIA also requested the UK government to extradite Warraich. According to FIA sources, Moonis' name was included by the FIA investigators in Abdul Maalik's statement. Maalik was Moonis' manager. Sources said Moonis' bank account

LAHORE - Mohsin Habib Warraich, one of the main accused in the NICL scam, has categorically said in a statement duly attested by the Pakistan High Commission that Moonis Elahi has nothing to do with the NICL deal and transactions.
Mohsin Warraich's statement reads: "Last night I faxed a statement addressed to additional DG FIA in Islamabad in which I categorically stated that the entire sale proceeds of the transaction with the NICL amounting to Rs 1.68 billion, had been duly

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Punjab has obtained arrest warrants for Moonis Elahi, son of former chief minister Pervez Elahi, for his involvement in the National Insurance Company Limited Rs 2.75 billion scam.
The FIA additional director general and head of the team investigating the NICL scam, Zafar Ahmed Qureshi, on Friday convened a meeting regarding progress on the NICL case. Qureshi said the process would not be stopped despite Moonis' lawyer's assurance

ISLAMABAD/LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday issued summons for Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Elahi, in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam case. FIA Additional Director General (ADG) Zafar Qureshi said the FIA had issued summons to Moonis to appear before the FIA investigation team to explain his involvement in the NICL scam.
"The FIA team has called him for investigation but if he does not appear before the

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court was informed on Monday that an accused who embezzled Rs 5 billion in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam had told investigators that he had given Rs 220 million to Moonis Elahi, son of former Punjab chief minister Pervez Elahi, from the plundered money.
A three-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday was hearing a suo motu case against alleged corruption of