Tag: Scam

KARACHI - The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) director general (DG) Waseem Ahmed appeared before Justice Sajjad Ali Shah of the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday to record his statement on the acquittal of the accused in the Khanani and Kalia money laundering case.
The FIA DG was directed on March 9 to appear the judge and bring all evidence and record to back his statement before a senate committee and the media following the acquittal of eight men in the famous foreign

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday dismissed former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi's bail petition in the NICL land purchase scam. Niazi, through his counsel, submitted that he had no role in the NICL scam but the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) dragged him into the case. A FIA official informed the court that Niazi was involved in the 803-kanal scam and the allegation has been proved during the investigation. After hearing arguments,

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to expedite investigation against the accused involved in the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) corruption scam. A two-member SC bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and Justice Ghulam Rabbani directed the lawyer for PSM, Fakhruddin G Ebrahim, to present an interim forensic report within a month.
Ebrahim told the court that PSM management had engaged a company to prepare the forensic

LAHORE - The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) is unlikely to decide the fate of plots of its employees on its own terms, discarding LDA staffers' demands. All was set to dole out the plots through balloting on Thursday (today) but the court issued restraining orders on Wednesday. An LDA employee, Muhammad Khalid, petitioned in the civil court, saying that LDA should be stopped holding balloting for employees' plots on March 10 as he apprehended that balloting will not do the justice

ISLAMABAD - A special audit has identified irregularities worth Rs 51,504,835 by the ex-managing committee in connivance with the developer in the development expenditure and purchase of land of the Senate (Sectt) Employees Cooperative Housing Society Islamabad. According to the audit report, a copy of which is available with Pakistan Today, the development contractor M/s Raja Ishtiaq Associates was found involved in the financial irregularities worth of Rs 50,732,217. According to

ISLAMABAD - Chief of Muttahida Mahaz Bahawalpur (MMB) and former information minister Senator Mohammad Ali Durrani Saturday warned the Punjab government of a long march if the 'loot sale' of Bahawalpur state lands is not stopped.
Addressing a press conference, Senator Durrani warned those who had acquired the state lands to vacate the lands or be ready to face public wrath. "Those who have bought these lands as front men of the influential will be tagged as 'traitors' of the

LAHORE - Former state minister Habib Ullah Warraich has contradicted a news item published in Pakistan Today regarding the court's proceedings in National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) scam where he has been accused of committing corruption of billions rupees by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).
A written clarification by his counsel Malik Noor Muhammad Awan stated that Habib Ullah Warraich had never purchased any government land and also never sold any property to the

ISLAMABAD - Hearing a petition against the Railways land scam, allegedly worth more than Rs 25 billion, the Supreme Court on Friday directed the Railways secretary to submit a comprehensive report within two weeks. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali and Justice Ghulam Rabbani held that the court would also examine the transparency of the transfer of money in the deal.
Mian Gul Hassan advocate told the court that

ISLAMABAD - The Indian General Court Martial (GCM) - trying former director general for supplies and transport Lt Gen SK Sahni - cashiered him from service and sentenced him to three years rigorous imprisonment for irregularities in the procurement of dry rations.
The court, presided over by Lt Gen Jatinder Singh, held Sahni guilty on six of the nine charges of professional impropriety levelled against him. He had been under arrest since July 31 last year when his trial commenced

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

NEW DELHI: India's premier civilian investigation agency has estimated that the country's former Telecom minister A Raja could have received as much as 30 billion rupees ($600 million) as bribe in the 2G spectrum scam, local media reported Friday.
According to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he caused loss to the national exchequer by selling the spectrum at undervalued rates at 400 to 500 billion rupees, 'The Times of India' said.
The former minister is currently

ISLAMABAD: The report of the National Assembly's (NA) Standing Committee on House and Library has been challenged in the Islamabad High Court over the scam in the NA Employees Cooperative Housing Society. Justice Riaz Ahmed on Friday heard a petition filed by former Islamabad deputy commissioner Chaudhry Asadullah Faiz.
The petitioner contended that the NA body's report was not based on facts and corruption charges against him in the report were baseless.
He asked the court

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to submit a day-to-day progress report on the alleged corruption and mismanagement in Haj affairs with the registrar for perusal of Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and asked it to interrogate Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's son, Abdul Qadir Gilani for his alleged involvement in the scam.
An eight-member special bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry,

ISLAMABAD - A mega scam in the federal Interior Ministry involving embezzlement of Rs 825 million is in the making, as officials have not provided auditors with the details of the money credited into the government's account. Documents available with Pakistan Today reveal that the Interior Ministry had issued 88,838 arms licenses in 15 months from March 28, 2008 to June 30, 2009.
The estimated fee collected by the Interior Ministry for these arms licenses was Rs 515.51 million

ISLAMABAD - The government should implement the recommendations made in the reports of the parliamentary committees as it is the only way to ensure sovereignty of the parliament. These observations were made by the members of the National Assembly after the report of the special parliamentary committee probing the National Assembly Employees Cooperative Housing Society (NAECHS) scam was presented in the House by its convener, Sheikh Waqas Akram.
In his remarks, Akram narrated the

KARACHI - The high-ups of the authorities concerned are continuously interfering in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) probing the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) scam as some bitter facts have come to light. Recently, the FIA joint interrogation team was not permitted to search the house of an important personality of the business community as he is an in-law of Amin Qasim Dada, the main culprit of NICL scam.
"The FIA wanted a search warrant for the house of

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Railways chairman to submit a comprehensive reply over the non-transparent procedure for the procurement of 75 locomotives and the subsequent tender for another 150 locomotives by the Railways Ministry, causing Rs 40 billion losses to the national exchequer.
A four-member bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman, also sought the record of