LAHORE: The wife and daughters of Major (retd) Habibullah Warraich, main accused in the National Insurance Corporation Limited (NICL) case, agreed to return Rs100 million to Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) authorities on Tuesday.
Speaking to the media, FIA Punjab director Zaffar Qureshi said that the wife and daughters of Warraich had been summoned today (Tuesday), but they had contacted FIA and requested exemption from the inquiry and agreed to hand over the money. Qureshi said their statements will be recorded before an exemption is given.
Director FIA also said Warraich, who had escaped to London, would also be brought back soon.
The wife and two daughters of Habibullah are also beneficiaries in the land purchase scam in which Mohsin and Privilege Farms Pvt Ltd Company received Rs2.75 billion from the National Insurance Company Limited in account of two land sale agreements. According to investigations, about a million rupees from the Rs2.75 billion had been transferred into the accounts of the three women of the Warraich family.
Transparency chief summoned
The FIA has issued a notice to include Transparency International (TI) Pakistan chairman in the NICL scandal. TI chairman, Syed Adil Gilani has been summoned on December 23 at the FIA center in Lahore.
The former NICL chairman Ayyaz Khan Niazi in his confessional statement to the FIA claimed that the TI had quietly offered to get him a clean chit from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, which was hearing a case against the insurance company if he were to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that future business contracts of NICL will go to only those private parties, which would be cleared and recommended by the TI. Three members of NICL board are also said to have fully substantiated the statement of Niazi that absconding board member, Qasim Amin Dada, himself had brought the secret offer in question from Transparency International.
Earlier, the FIA had sent sent Gilani a set of 22 questions to answer, after he refused to travel to Lahore to join the inquiry.
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