LAHORE: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed that PTI President Chaudhry Pervez Elahi’s son and other family members were not cooperating with investigation in case pertaining to funds deposited in bank account of Punjab Assembly employee.

Agency revealed this in report it submitted to Lahore High Court (LHC) in connection with plea filed by petitioners Rasikh Elahi, Tahreem Elahi and Zahra Elahi, seeking direction to quash FIR registered against them for money laundering.

Report stated that on January 24, Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab registered criminal case against PA employee Qaisar Iqbal Bhatti and sent referral letter, along with copy of FIR and connected material to office of answering respondent to initiate an investigation into money laundering under relevant provisions of AMLA-2010.

One of petitioners admitted receiving aforesaid amount in their bank accounts and took plea that said amount was received as consideration for shares they held in Argo Tractor Pvt. Ltd.

However, this stance was belied by fact that said company had been defunct since 2014 while petitioner received amount in 2020. They failed to answer legitimate source of transaction-PA employee has no relationship with them or their family. Moreover, another petitioner claimed that said transactions were against purchase of land which could not mature. However, no proof was presented for this claim. Subsequently, FIA requested court to dismiss petitioner’s plea.

Published in The Daily National Courier, June, 06 2023

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