EX-PTI legislator’s house raided

ACE claims Rs200m worth of local, foreign currency recovered

MUZAFFARGARH:

A special team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), along with a heavy contingent of police, raided the house of Sardar Abdul Hai Dasti, a former adviser to a former chief minister of Punjab and an ex-MPA of the Tehreek-e-Insaf, and allegedly recovered more than Rs200 million worth of local and foreign currency notes from his house.

Abdul Hai Dasti had not been at home at the time of the raid.

The Additional Director-General of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (Punjab), Waqas Hassan, led the special team that conducted the raid.

The ACE team, along with the police contingent, left the house with a bag full of currency notes and other records.

The Circle Officer of ACE of Muzaffargarh, Waseem Akbar Leghari, said that the action had been taken by a special team from Lahore.

ACE took a stand in the case filed against the former MPA, Abdul Hai Dasti, that when he was elected MPA in 2018, his financial condition had been in dire straits, and during his tenure in power, “he illegally collected cash and assets worth of more than 300 million of rupees”.

They said that the action of raiding his house was taken on a tipoff from an informer.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2^nd, 2023.