Missing necklace: FIA told to register case against ex-PM Gilani, wife

Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wife had handed over the necklace to former premier Gilani and his wife


Owais Qarni June 22, 2015
Yousaf Raza Gilani. PHOTO: FILE

MULTAN:


A local court has ordered the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to register a case against former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani for the alleged theft of a diamond necklace donated by then Turkish First Lady for flood relief in 2010.


Additional District and Sessions Judge Bakht Fakhar Behzad on Monday ordered the FIA deputy director in Multan to launch an inquiry into the missing necklace and submit the report within seven days.

The order was passed on a petition filed by senior lawyer and social activist Fahim Gill in which the interior secretary, FIA’s director general, FIA Punjab’s director, FIA Multan’s deputy director, Gilani and his wife Fauzia Gilani were made respondents.

The petitioner stated that then Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s wife Emine Erdogan during a visit to flood-hit Mehmoodkot had donated a precious necklace for the rehabilitation of flood survivors. She had handed over the necklace to former premier Gilani and his wife. The couple, the plaintiff alleged, misappropriated the necklace.

Gill claims that he had submitted an inquiry application with the FIA Punjab and Multan directors but they refused to investigate the case. They also confessed the FIA director general and interior secretary had barred them from taking any action against the suspects.

Sessions Judge Behzad ordered the FIA Multan deputy director to register the petition as a complaint, conduct an inquiry and submit the findings in the court by June 29.

The FIA has been ordered to investigate the couple individually.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2015.

COMMENTS (1)

Ibrar | 8 years ago | Reply What can one say!!! This precious flood relief gift item if auctioned via an appropriate authority would bring lots of money. Instead it seems it was swallowed by someone meant to protect Pakistan honour. So sad. Depth of corruptinn is pathetic and disgraceful. If proven guilty the suspect should be banned from contesting elections and banned from mixing with foreign dignitaries.
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