FIA submits details of Musharraf’s properties

Tells ATC it would seek their confiscation after collection of complete details


Qaiser Shirazi February 15, 2019
Former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: REUTERS

RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has submitted to a special anti-terrorism court (ATC) details of former military ruler General Pervez Musharraf’s properties in Pakistan.

The FIA presented these details before the ATC judge Asghar Khan in connection with the Benazir Bhutto murder case. The FIA told the court that its report contained complete details of Musharraf’s assets except for his bank accounts at the Standard Chartered Bank.

The FIA requested the ATC to give it more time to gather this piece of information. The ATC accepted the request and asked the investigation agency to submit the information on March 15.

The court also reprimanded the FIA for withdrawal of money from Musharraf’s frozen bank accounts and directed it to present a report in this regard as well. The court was told that no huge amounts were debited and only bank charges were deducted.

The FIA prosecutor Khawaja Imtiaz told that court that complete asset details of accused should be presented in the court. He said the court had frozen all the national and overseas assets of Pervez Musharraf after declaring him an absconder in the case.

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The prosecutor said after collection of complete asset details, the FIA would seek directives for their confiscation. On Friday, no one appeared in the court to represent the former president.

According to the FIA report, Musharraf owns eight properties in Pakistan. These include a house in Karachi worth Rs5 million, a plot at Khayaban-e-Faisal Phase 8 worth 1.5 million, a plot in DHA Karachi worth Rs1.5 million, a plot in DHA Phase II Islamabad worth Rs750 million, a plot in Lahore worth Rs6 million, a farmhouse at Islamabad Chak Shehzad worth Rs6 million.

He also has bank accounts at Askari Bank Rawalpindi, NBP Rawalpindi, Habib Metropolitan Bank Pindi Cantt, Bank Alfalah Blue Area Islamabad, Askari Bank GHQ Branch Rawalpindi, NBP Super Market Islamabad, Union National Bank Super Market and HSBC London. There is an estimated amount of $20 million dollar in foreign banks and Rs1.25 million rupees in national banks.

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