Court says proclamations should be pasted outside suspects’ residences, read aloud in their native areas
£190m scam: Order issued to declare Malik Riaz, others proclaimed offenders. Islamabad Accountability Court Initiates Process to Declare Shahzad Akbar, Zulfi Bukhari, Malik Riaz, Farah Gogi, and Others as Proclaimed Offenders in £190 Million Scam Reference. The court has issued a written order for the proclamations to be displayed outside the residences of the suspects.
According to the order issued by Judge Muhammad Bashir of the accountability court, the investigating officer of the reference, Mian Umar Nadeem, said the arrest warrants against the six suspects involved in the reference, including Malik Riaz, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Ziaul Mustafa Naseem, Zulfi Bukhari, Ahmed Riaz and Farhat Shahzadi, could not be complied with.
According to the investigation officer’s report, the suspects are deliberately not complying with the arrest warrant. The reason for the suspects not complying with the warrant is to spoil the justice system.
The order stated that the court was satisfied that the suspects were absconders and hiding to avoid arrests. Under Section 87, notices were being issued against the absconding suspects for being proclaimed offenders. Proclamations should be pasted outside the residences of the suspects.
The proclamations should also be read aloud in the native and residential areas of the suspects, the order stated.
Further proceedings against the suspects would be held on January 6.
Previously, alarming revelations had come forth in the investigation report of the 190 million-pound scam case against former prime minister Imran Khan and others.
The record of correspondence with the UK’s National Crime Agency, held by the Asset Recovery Unit of the previous government, has disappeared. The report also confirms Malik Riaz’s meeting with former prime minister Imran Khan and former accountability adviser Shahzad Akbar before the settlement of 190 million pounds.
As per the PM House records, the meeting was held on July 11, 2019.
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The report states that the missing record was held by Shahzad Akbar and Ziaul Mustafa Naseem. The record was owned by the state of Pakistan, and disappeared to cover up the illicit activities.
The records were made to disappear to hamper the investigation in the case, the report said, adding that the Cabinet Division had conducted an inquiry into the missing records.
