Pakistan

Ex-SECP chief Zafar Hijazi remanded in FIA custody for three more days

FIA requested for a 10-day remand but Hijazi's lawyer said his client was in poor health

News Desk July 26, 2017

Zafar Hijazi. PHOTO: File

A sessions court in Islamabad handed over former Securities Exchange Commission Pakistan (SECP) chairman Zafar Hijazi on a further three-day remand to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday.

Hijazi, who is in custody for allegedly tampering with the record of the Sharif family’s documents, was presented in the court of judge Muhammad Shabbir after his earlier four-day physical remand ended, Express News reported..

At the hearing, the FIA requested for a further 10-day remand but Hijazi’s lawyer argued that the former chairman was in poor health. The lawyer said that during his earlier remand Hijazi had spent two days in the hospital and two in FIA custody and now there was no need for him to be in custody any more.

SECP chief arrested from court premises

However the judge granted a further three-day remand to the FIA and ordered that Hijazi be produced in court again on July 29.

The FIA has registered a case of record tampering against Hijazi on the directives of the Supreme Court of Pakistan which is hearing a case against the Sharif family’s offshore assets.

He was arrested in the court’s premises on July 21 after his interim pre-arrest bail request was denied.

COMMENTS (2)

Parvez | 7 years ago | Reply Everyone knows who the beneficiary of the document tampering is...... but as reported in the press, this is not reflected in the FIR......looks like another case of ' fool the people '.

Muhammad Qamer Farooq | 7 years ago | Reply Extremely sad to know the fact that a Govt. employee for such an institution could be involved in making tempering of record and concealment.

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