Thursday, May 12, 2011

SC Forms Team To investigate BoP Scam

SC Forms Team To investigate BoP ScamSupreme Court formed a special investigatory team under the head of former DG FIA to investigate the Bank of Punjab case, reported A Pk News.

During the hearing of the BoP scam case, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said the embezzlement seemed to amount to trillions of rupees instead of 9 billion.

Hamesh Khan, former president Bank of Punjab and the prime accused of billion rupees bank fraud was produced before the apex court on Wednesday.

The CJ rebuked Hamesh Khan's counsel Mehmood A Shaikh for giving statement to media that political pressure is at work, saying that he should have mentioned it in the court, and remarked that Hamesh is not being tried, he was just quizzed over the case. The NAB representatives told the court that Hamesh, during a meeting with his family, wrote on his shirt that all his e-mails be eliminated forthwith.

The CJ formed an investigation team on the matter and ordered former DG FIA Tariq Khosa to head the time.

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