LAHORE: A particular court docket on Wednesday granted pre-arrest interim bail to former federal minister Moonis Elahi until July 4 in a case, registered by Federal Investigation Company (FIA) on the costs of cash laundering in a sugar rip-off.
Particular Court docket (Offence in banks) Decide Muhammad Aslam Gondal heard the bail software of the previous minister.
Advocates Amjad Pervaiz and Amir Saeed Rawn appeared on behalf of Moonis Elahi and argued that the FIA had registered a bogus case towards their shopper and others on the costs of cash laundering. They submitted that their shopper was harmless and had been implicated within the case resulting from mala fide intentions. They submitted that Moonis Elahi had joined the investigations, but it surely was feared that the FIA would possibly arrest him. The counsel pleaded with the court docket to grant the advantage of bail to Moonis Elahi.
The court docket granted pre-arrest interim bail to Moonis Elahi until July 4 and stopped the FIA from his arrest until the following date of listening to, apart from looking for a report.
The FIA had registered a case towards Moonis Elahi, Punjab Meeting Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti, Muhammad Nawaz Bhatti, Muhammad Ali, Mazhar Abbas, Makhdoom Omar Shehryar, Tarik Jawaid and Wajid Khan Bhatti beneath sections 109, 420, 468, 471, 34 of PPC, learn with 5(2) of Prevention of Corruption Act 1947 and three/4 of the Anti-Cash Laundering Act 2010, in reference to the affairs of the RYK/Alliance Sugar Mills Group.
The court docket had already granted interim bail to Punjab Meeting Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti and Wajid Khan Bhatti within the matter.
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