Officers of the Anti-Corruption Institution (ACE) will shortly current Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi earlier than a Gujranwala court docket right this moment.
ACE officers had introduced Elahi to its regional workplace in Gujranwala from Lahore earlier this morning.
Elahi shall be produced within the court docket of Responsibility Judicial Justice of the Peace Muhammad Afzal, the place anti-corruption officers will request the court docket to grant them Elahi’s bodily remand.
Yesterday, a particular decide of the anti-corruption court docket in Lahore issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Elahi, ordering authorities to provide him by June 2. Nevertheless, minutes later he was re-arrested in a corruption case registered in opposition to him in Gujranwala by ACE Punjab.
The circumstances
It must be famous that two circumstances have been registered in Gujranwala in opposition to the previous Punjab chief minister on the costs of receiving kickbacks in awarding contracts, whereas one case has been lodged in Lahore in opposition to the previous chief minister.
Earlier, a particular decide of the anti-corruption court docket in Lahore issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Elahi, ordering authorities to provide him by June 2. Two arrest warrants have been issued for the PTI chief. The primary one was issued on Might 25 after the cancellation of bail whereas the second on Might 26.
In April, the ACE Gujranwala filed a case in opposition to the PTI president citing a report, wherein the previous Punjab CM was accused of taking a Rs2 billion bribe for the contract of a growth scheme.
In one other case, an FIR No 6/23 was registered in opposition to Elahi for taking a bribe of Rs120 million from a global organisation — a Turkish firm.
The anti-corruption court docket decide additionally declared Elahi’s medical certificates as bogus which claimed that he had been experiencing chest ache.
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