On the directive of the Accountability Court of Islamabad, advertisements featuring fugitive suspects in the £190 million scandal case were published on Friday outside the Judicial complex.
In connection with the £190 million scandal reference, former Accountability Adviser Shahzad Akbar, ex-Special Assistant Zulfi Bukhari, Zia Al Mustafa, and Farah Gogi, who are absconding suspects, had their details posted at the judicial complex on Friday.
The accused have been officially summoned to appear before the accountability court on January 6, as indicated in the advertisements.
The release of the advertisements follows the orders of Judge Muhammad Basheer of the Accountability Court. Former PTI chairman and his wife Bushra Bibi are also named as accused in the reference.
Per the order issued by Judge Muhammad Bashir, the investigation officer of the reference, Mian Umar Nadeem, emphasized that the arrest warrants for Mirza Shahzad Akbar, Zia-ul-Mustafi Naseem, Zulfi Bukhari, Ahmed Riaz, Farhat Shahzad, and others implicated in the reference should be diligently enforced.
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The Islamabad accountability court has initiated the process for declaring former PM’s accountability adviser Shahzad Akbar, former PM’s special assistant Zulfi Bukhari, property tycoon Malik Riaz, Farah Gogi, and other suspects proclaimed offenders in the 190 million pounds reference.
The court issued a written order and directed to put up the proclamations 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.
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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.
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