ISLAMABAD: A workforce of the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB), accompanied by Rawalpindi police, raided the workplaces of Bahria City in Rawalpindi, officers aware about the event mentioned on Tuesday.
Although there was no official phrase from NAB or different authorities, some officers within the accountability bureau confirmed the event on the situation of anonymity.
NAB spokesperson Birj Lal expressed ignorance concerning the ‘raid’, saying: “The raid might need been carried out by NAB Rawalpindi, however I can not verify it.”
One other supply mentioned the intent behind the raid was to confiscate document associated to the Al Qadir Belief case.
Bahria City proprietor Malik Riaz and his son Ali Malik, who’re presently mentioned to be within the UAE, have already been declared proclaimed offenders within the Al-Qadir Trust case by an accountability court docket.
In response to this improvement, the controversial property tycoon took to X (previously Twitter) to publish what seemed to be a CCTV video of the purported raid, by which a number of males in plainclothes could possibly be seen milling about, going by means of cabinets and drawers in an workplace house.
Nevertheless, it couldn’t be ascertained from the footage whether or not it was certainly from the Bahria City workplaces. The tycoon, nonetheless, reiterated on social media that he wouldn’t develop into an “approver” regardless of “oppression”.
In a subsequent tweet, he claimed the “raid lasted for hours” and that 9 of his staff have been allegedly taken away, together with workplace data and automobiles. He alleged that many Bahria City properties and accounts have been seized final month and urged the federal government to “launch” his staffers and return the “seized gear”.
In a cryptic post on social media final week, the property tycoon, who has a chequered historical past, complained that he was going through “strain” to take a political aspect and was going through monetary losses, however vowed not for use as a “pawn for political motives”.
The assertion was out of character for the Bahria City proprietor, who is taken into account extraordinarily well-connected with political events, media and the nation’s civil and navy institution.
His previous is suffering from instances alleging the usage of questionable and high-handed land acquisition techniques for his opulent actual property initiatives.
He and his agency have additionally been on the centre of a number of court docket instances; most just lately being ordered by the Supreme Courtroom to pay the quantity the true property developer owed to the Sindh authorities for the acquisition of land for Bahria City Karachi.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty ninth, 2024