Assets case: PTI’s Aleem Khan to be presented in court today

F.P. Report

LAHORE: leader of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan will be presented before the accountability court on Monday (today) in the assets beyond his known sources of income case.

According to details, an accountability court will hear the case today against the former Punjab’s senior minister and he will be presented before the court of Accountability Judge Syed Najmul Hassan upon completion of his judicial remand.

In the last hearing, the judge had previously sent Aleem to jail on judicial remand till April 30 and directed the NAB prosecutor to submit a final report on the matter in the next hearing.

According to NAB, Aleem being the Secretary of Parkview Cooperative Housing Society, Member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab and Minister for Information Technology held public office and during the period was involved in acts of corruption and corrupt practices by way of accumulating assets beyond known sources of income within Pakistan and outside.

Furthermore, the bureau said, the accused established multiple companies with the purpose of real estate business and invested millions of rupees.

He has been accused of buying more than 900 kanal land in different villages of Lahore in the name of his company M/s A&A Pvt. Ltd. and also paid advances for additional 600 kanal land for which he could not account for the sources of the investments.

In year 2005 and 2006, apart from inland assets, he established offshore companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Kingdom (UK) with these companies acquiring assets of extensive value which are beyond known sources of income of the accused.