Islamabad: On Thursday, May 18, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi chapter summoned former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan for an Al-Qadir Trust investigation.
The Supreme Court declared NAB’s incarceration of the PTI head “illegal” last week, providing “blanket relief” to him.
The anti-graft committee requested data of the UK National Crime Agency’s 2019 investigation into the former premier’s £190 million assets on Tuesday.
Moreover, Khan must also bring NCA investigation materials and Al-Qadir University land papers, trust deeds, and bank statements to NAB.
While, The anti-corruption watchdog threatened legal action if the PTI chairman did not comply with the summons.
Moreover, the British government found £140 million in an account owned by a famous Pakistani real estate tycoon’s son and his wife from 2018 to 2019.
The NCA quickly blocked the payments, suspecting illicit origins.
Surprisingly, neither the guy nor his wife disputed the account freezing. In 2019, the UK returned Pakistan’s government’s laundered monies after legal procedures. ARU and NCA released a joint press release announcing this decision.
On December 3, 2019, then-SAPM Mirza Shahzad Akbar presented the case to Pakistan’s federal cabinet in a sealed envelope.
The presentation discussed returning the funds to a Supreme Court of Pakistan registrar-supervised account.
This account was used to recover Rs460 billion from the same property tycoon for Karachi housing plan fines.
A person familiar with the probe told The News that Khan accepted the deal without his cabinet colleagues reading it.
The property tycoon offered a large compensation package to return the laundered money. The Al-Qadir Trust received Rs285 million and 458 Kanal, 4 Marla, and 58 square feet of land in Jhelum.
Khan, Bushra Bibi, Zulfiqar Bukhari, and Babar Awan were Al-Qadir Trust trustees. On April 22, 2020, Awan and Bukhari were fired.
