Islamabad: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday issued notices to Director General Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Interior Secretary Khuwaja Saeed Akbar as it resumed hearing of multi-billion scam in the National Insurance Company Limited (NICL).
A three- member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, comprising Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Tariq Pervaiz, was hearing the case.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) former additional director general Zafar Qureshi who closely investigated the case and recovered more Rs 1.78 billion appeared before the court and told that he could not completed the challan before his retirement on September 30 as FIA chief Tehseen Anwar Shah and Interior Secretary Khuwaja Saeed Akbar created hurdles during the investigation.
He informed the court that the FIA chief didn’t appoint prosecutors in the case deliberately to benefit the accused.
Qureshi informed the court that Moonis Elahi, a son of ex Punjab chief minister and now a senior minister in the federal cabinet, was not tried regularly and was set free by a banking court .On this, the CJ asked why Elahi was tried separately. “His lawyers had applied for the trial”, Qureshi responded as saying.
He said that he had got frozen an account of Rs.20 million of Moonis Elah, adding that the amount was later released on forge documents. He said that Rs.300million were yet to be recovered from Moonis Elahi.
“We will see director general FIA but the agency was not cooperating”, he said and added why shouldn’t the case be handed over to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
The hearing was adjourned till November 2.
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