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Malik Riaz, son ‘fugitives’ in land scam case
Prosecutor general says raids being conducted for their arrests.
Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain and his son Ahmed Ali Riaz Malik, chief executive officer of Bahria Town, are absconders in a land scam case before the Supreme Court. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
LAHORE:
Real estate tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain and his son Ahmed Ali Riaz Malik, chief executive officer of Bahria Town, are absconders in a land scam case before the Supreme Court and have been evading arrest since December last year, according to officials.
The Anti Corruption Establishment registered a case against Hussain, Malik and four others at its police station in Rawalpindi on November 4, 2009.
They were accused of bribing revenue officials to get 1,401 kanals of ‘shamilat’ or community land transferred to their names. The two had obtained interim bail in the case but it expired in December 2011.
Punjab Prosecutor General Sadaqat Ali Khan said that both father and son were “fugitives from the law” and legally could not even give a letter of attorney to a lawyer. To do so, they would first have to surrender or obtain bail, he said.
Asked why they had not been arrested, he said that the police were conducting raids for their arrests. “They must be arrested to complete the challan for court proceedings,” he said.
Nida Zahoor, spokeswoman for Bahria Town, said she had no comment on the subject.
Land transfer
An ACE official said that after an initial inquiry, a case had been registered on November 4, 2009, against five people, including former patwari Muhammad Rizwan, for fraudulently claiming ownership of the land in Malikpur Azizwal tehsil by forging the record, and then transferring the land to other beneficiaries.
The case was registered under Sections 420 (cheating), 468 (forgery) and 471 (using a forged document) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA). On December 12, 2010, Justice Ijaz Ahmed of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench directed ACE to conduct a more comprehensive inquiry. ACE investigators then found 18 mutations or transfers in the land record including one in favour of Malik Riaz, two for Ali Malik, 11 for Muhammad Iqbal, an employee of Bahria Town, two for Sheikh Sajidur Rehman, and one each for Nasirul Haq and Dildar Hussain.
Bahria Town General Manager Akhtar Saeed told investigators that the land developers had paid Rs50 million to buy the land, the ACE official said, but it was actually worth billions of rupees. Saeed was accused of handing out bribes on Bahria Town’s behalf to Naib Tehsildar Adnan Bashir Kiyani, Girdawar Muhammad Hussain and Girdawar Nazir Hussain to get the land records changed and to skip verification procedures.
On October 12 last year, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry while hearing the bail applications in the land scam case, questioned ACE officials as to whether Malik Riaz Hussain and his son had been arrested. ACE Director General Abid Javed told the court that several raids had been conducted to arrest Hussain and his son, but they had gone underground. He said seven of the total 16 accused had been arrested.
The Home Department, on the ACE director general’s instructions, sent a request to the Interior Ministry to put the names of the accused on the Exit Control List so they could not flee the country. The request was rejected, said ACE officials. Malik Riaz Hussain and his son got interim bail from the Supreme Court in November, but the bail period ended in December 2011.
Ali Malik was also summoned twice by the Supreme Court in the Dr Arsalan Iftikhar case, but did not turn up until his father returned to the country for the hearing last Tuesday. ACE officials said that the two could not have been arrested from the Supreme Court on Tuesday “because there would have been chaos”.
Published In The Express Tribune, June 15th, 2012.
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This country…my country…it cannot survive. We might stumble along another 14.5 years? 5 years? maybe another 30 years?? but defiantly no longterm future the rate we have been going….
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@JS:
Corrupt people won’t survive, don’t worry about the country.
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Time has come to form some kind of group that would target these criminals if justice is not served. That is the only solution if we want to save this country.
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if he was absconder since last December than why did not the authorities arrest him from supreme court premises when it was televised live on every news channel of this country.Recommend
To run a state, we need to have different mind set. At present everyting this state stands on, killing itself. Mullah has left his pulpit and has started jihad or taken over the role of regular army. Army is doing all sort of business but fight the war. Politicians are crook and more interested in the money come their way. Government officials have no guts to say to the illegal orders. the Judiciary is super active and has taken over the role of Exective. The Parliment still carries the General Zia given name and legacy. Can you find me any department working in this country.
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Inshallah Country would survive. Dont know about the neighbours country
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@Moise:
This is the irony, overwhelming majority of us are corrupt beyond any doubt, if all won’t survive, then what JS is saying holds true.
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Dirty games played by courts now !!
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@Salman … I am glade to know that I have like minded people :) Time has come to start “Operation Cleanup” in order to clean our beloved country from this kind of filth before its too late.
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@Salman:
You mean like say … target killers?
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If Malik Riaz was fugitive why was he not arrested so far? Is it because since Dec 2011 till now payments were still being made by Malik Riaz to Arsalan? As soon as payments stopped suddenly SC realised Malik Riaz is a fugitive? Malik Riaz has been to SC twice recently. Why was he not arrested? In fact court remarked that he was co-operating and hence there was not need to put his name on ECL. Something is fishy.
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@Moise: Every person in Pakistan – no matter who, is corrupt to the core. It is in our genes. What clean-up are you talking about? One goes, another takes his place.
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My roll no for assistant director nab has arrived but I have already been told that the posts have been sold out. What can an individual do either to be a son to a rich SOB or to kill your self in this country.
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@Imran:
Are you sane? …. I seriously doubt it :(
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@Salman:
You speak rightly my friend
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For land dealers like Malik Riaz, Pakistan is only a piece of real estate. Relying on bribery (the pahiya) confessed by him turned him from a peniless sub contractor to a private-jet flyer real estate tycoon all as they say in the blink of an eye.
Every rise has a fall. And the higher you go, the harder you fall.
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Pakistan will survive. No need to worry about that. It’s just a matter of time before we come out of this turmoil.
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JS, Fully agree with you! They are in self denial & till such time the problem is not identified there can be simply no cure. We see nothing wrong with us instead think of it as conspiracy against us.
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Please spend some time pondering on these two statements. It clearly shows CJ is not compromised and was not compromised. The second one shows who is in cahoots with Malik !!!! You be the judge, for once.
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What sort of fugitive is he. A fugitive who walks with and around all cops. He has made law of our country a laughing stock.
How helpless we are as a nation.
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This ‘fugitive’ came to SC twice in last few days and the “honourable” judges refused to place him on ECL. Why was he not arrested by SC if he is really fugitive? SC should make up its mind if Malik Riaz is really a fugitive or not.
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“He said seven of the total 16 accused had been arrested”
Those seven must have been low level government officials. And a fugitive is a regular visitor to Presidency and PM House.
This only happens in the land of pure.
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Ha ha ha! So the man who gives 14 crores for the release of Pakistanis held by Somali pirates is a fugitive from the law! No one will believe this story; all this is being done only to save Arsalan Iftikhar and his father. The Chief Justice must have some decency and resign as he too is now a tainted man. No one believes his story that he was not aware of what his son was doing. And can one ask if the son of a Chief Justice is kicked out of the house under what law is the Islamabad Police required to provide and pay for his accommodation. We are ashamed of our Supreme Court today..
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@Umer:
mr. supreme court can not arrest any body. its the police and other agencies like interior ministry who are responsible to obey the court orders. but these positions are held by friends of RIAZ MALIK AND MORE OVER PRESIDENT IS HIS FRIEND AND IS THE REAL MANIPULATOR. THAT IS WHY MALIK RIAZ AND ALL CORRUPTS ARE PLAYING WITH THE NATION.
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