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ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) has ordered recovery of the money spent on free Haj packages within one week, AAJ NEWS reported on Friday.
Earlier, the Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) Director of Legal Affairs Mohammed Azam told the SC that over Rs5.5 million had been recovered from the Rs46 million spent on free Haj packages.
A four-member bench of the SC headed by Chief Justice Ifitkhar Mohammed Chaudhry heard the Haj corruption case.
An FIA official told the court that a total of 450 people had performed Haj free-of-cost in two phases.
In his remarks, the Chief Justice said the court was only concerned about the recovery of misused money; the rest of the issues would be dealt with by the lower courts
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