RAWALPINDI – The Rawalpindi NAB has summoned Malik Riaz in the fakeaccounts case on May 15.
The NAB has also summoned Malik Riaz’s son Ali Malik on May 16.
Both will be investigated in the JV (Joint Venture)-Opal 225 case.
Earlier, the Supreme Court had banned the sale, purchase and transfer ofproperties, owned by Zardari Group, Bahria Town and Omni Group after areport of the joint investigation team (JIT) revealed that the troika wasbehind laundering of Rs42 billion.
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The JIT report disclosed that at least 29 bank accounts had been identifiedas fake, which had been used for money-laundering of Rs42 billion. BahriaTown was involved in money-laundering of Rs10.2 billion, while kickbacks ofRs1.36 billion were laundered through accounts of 19 various contractors.
It said Zain Malik, son-in-law of Malik Riaz, and Mushtaq Ahmad, whohappened to be former secretary to Asif Zardari, had been maintaining theaccounts of Bahria Town. It said that a payment of Rs1.22 billion had beenmade to Faryal Talpur by JV-OPAL-225, a venture of Zardari and Bahriagroups. The building of the company was established on the land, owned byHakim Ali Zardari, father of Asif Zardari.
