ISLAMABAD: The Accountability Court hearing multi-billion rupees fake bank accounts case could not complete recording of the statement of prosecution witness in mega money laundering case on Thursday. The Accountability Court judge, Muhamamd Azam Khan, while hearing the mega money laundering case involving former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, and other accused recorded statement of prosecution Muhammad Naeem, additional registrar, the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). At the start of the hearing, Zardari and Talpur's counsel filed an application seeking one-day exemption of his clients, which the court approved.
The witness, while testifying before the court, said that he appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigation officer (IO) on August 28, 2019, and produced the relevant record before him. He said that he produced different documents related to Plaza Enterprises (Pvt), Regent Services and Alpa Private Limited before the NAB's IO.
The court adjourned hearing of the case till November 10th and the witness Naeem will continue recording of his statement before the court. The NAB prosecutor informed the court one of the prosecution witness, Christopher D Craz, has tested positive for the Covid-19, and he also produced his test report before the court.
The Naib Qasid, Tariq Mehmood, also tested positive for the coronavirus. The NAB had nominated Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Hussain Lawai, Anwar Majid, Abdul Ghani Majeed, Taha Raza, Arif Khan, Muhammad Umair, Syed Hussain Faisal Shah Jamote, Azam Wazir Khan, Nimr Majid, Mustafa Z Majid, Ali Kemal Malik, M Younas Kudwavi, Zain Malik, Haji Haroon, Khawaja Muhammad Salman Younus, Pir Darvesh Khan, Imran Khan, Muhammad Aurangzeb, and Bilal Shaikh, in the supplementary reference filed in the connection with mega money laundering case.
The same court also recorded the statement of prosecution witness, Ahsan Aslam registrar companies of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) in Park Lane case. The witness, while testifying before the court said that he produced different documents before the NAB IO with respect to different companies.
The court adjourned hearing of the case till November 11th. Those who were nominated by the NAB in the supplementary reference filed in the connection with Park Lane case include, Asif Ali Zardari, Muhammad Iqbal Memon, director Park Lane Company, M/s Park Lane Estate (Private) Limited, Muhammad Iqbal Khan Noori Director M/s Parthenon (Pvt) Ltd, Muhammad Hanif Accountant M/s Park Lane Estate, M/s Parthenon (Pvt) Limited, an incorporated entity bearing certificate of incorporation under the provision of the Companies Ordinance 1984, and Hussain Lawai, former president Arif Habib Bank, and the Summit Bank. The other accused include Abdul Ghani Majid, shareholder/director Regent Service (Pvt) Ltd multiple companies known as OMNI group, Khawaj Anwar Majid, shareholder director OMNI group, Taha Raza, public relationship manager, Arif Habib Bank now Summit Bank, Farooq Abdullah, area branch manager HBL, Uzair Naeem, former AVP Summit Bank, M/s Tracom (Pvt) Ltd through GM south-an incorporated entity bearing certificate of incorporation under the provision of the companies office, Muhammad Saleem Faisal General Manger (GM) M/s Tracom (Pvt) Limited, and Zahir Ismail.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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