Court seeks details of Ayyan Ali's assets in currency smuggling case

Judge says model will be declared proclaimed offender if she fails to appear in next hearing

A customs court in Rawalpindi on Friday sought details of model Ayyan Ali's assets during a hearing of the currency smuggling case, Express News reported.

Customs Court Judge Arshad Hussain conducted the hearing during which the counsel for the supermodel urged the court to postpone the proceedings.

Rejecting the request, the judge said that the court could not let legal proceedings be hampered and questioned as to why the model was unable to come to Pakistan when she could travel from Dubai to Oman.

He added that the model will be declared a proclaimed offender if she failed to appear before the court in the next hearing.

Court again issues non-bailable arrest warrants for Ayyan Ali

The court also issued show cause notices to Ali’s two guarantors and sought details of her assets in order to seize them. The hearing has been adjourned till March 9.

In 2015, Ali was arrested at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto International Airport while boarding a flight to the United Arab Emirates carrying $506,800 without the permission of the State Bank of Pakistan.

She was sent to jail and the government put her name on the Exit Control List (ECL). But she subsequently left for Dubai after she was released on bail and a court ordered the removal of her name from the ECL.