NAB seeks details of Elahi’s bank accounts
Former Punjab Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. PHOTO: FILE
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has in an inquiry sought details of bank accounts of former chief minister Pervaiz Elahi and others from State Bank of Pakistan.
In a letter to the SBP, the anti-graft body said, “An inquiry is being conducted against Elahi and others, therefore, all banks under your jurisdiction in Punjab should be directed to search accounts since inception and furnish attested copies of following bank record in respect of the persons, including Ch Aurangzaib, Khurram Shehzad, Malik Nadeern, Ahmed Tahir Ayub, Tanveer Abbas and others.”
NAB added, “Record/documents of all bank accounts ie active or closed, finance facilities, lockers, credit cards or any other facility etc are required.”
The details sought included certified copies of vouchers of debit/credit transactions of Rs200,000 and above, detail of debit/credit foreign transactions (F TTs) of all amounts and copies of swift messages (separately) along with detail showing trail of transactions.
Meanwhile, a magisterial court in Lahore sent PTI Central President Elahi on a 14-day judicial remand in an alleged money laundering case.
Read more: Elahi sent on 14-day judicial remand
The judge observed that no incriminating material was available on record to justify the former Punjab CM’s physical remand.
The investigation officer of the case requested Elahi’s 14-day physical remand for the completion of the probe.
Elahi’s counsel contended that the allegations levelled in the FIR against his client did not mention his name.
He pointed out that the whole story of the FIR revolved around his client’s son, Moonis Elahi.
The judge issued directions to produce him on July 5 along with a report under Section 173 of CrPC.
In a related development, the Islamabad High Court rejected a protective bail plea of PTI leaders Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Asad Umar in a case filed against them at the Tarnol police station.
It gave them time till Thursday (today) to appear before the court.
On the judge’s query where the two PTI leaders were, their lawyers apprised him that they were in a vehicle parked outside the IHC and could not enter the court fearing their arrest.
The judge gave them until Thursday to appear before the court if they wanted their bail plea to be heard.
Separately, former federal minister Ghulam Sarwar Khan on Wednesday was arrested in Islamabad in connection with the May 9 riots.
Sarwar, who served as the aviation minister in the PTI-led cabinet, had managed to evade arrest for over a month.
He was rounded up in the early hours of the day from his friend’s residence.
Former PTI MNA Mansoor Hayat Khan and former Punjab MPA Ammar Siddique Khan, who were with Sarwar at the time of the raid, were also taken into custody.
Police said a case was registered against Sarwar at the Taxila police station under terrorism charges. The PTI leaders were also wanted by the Rawalpindi police over their alleged involvement in the May 9 violence.