NAB registers Abdul Ghani Majeed's arrest in illegal land allotment case

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Friday registered the arrest of Anwar Majeed’s son Abdul Ghani Majeed in yet another case.

Majeed, who is already imprisoned in Karachi’s Malir Jail after his bail plea was turned down, has been shown arrested in NAB’s case number 21163.

NAB sources say the warrants for Majeed in an illegal land allotment case were issued on January 28. They further said that Director-General of Sindh Building Control Authority (DG SBCA) Manzoor Qadir Kaka was yet at large in the same inquiry.

Chairman National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Justice (R) Javed Iqbal had issued arrest warrants for Abdul Ghani Majeed.

The NAB maintains that Abdul Ghani Majeed, son of Omni Group tycoon Anwar Majeed, had illegally bought a plot in Nehr Khyam area of Clifton, Karachi.

The anti-graft body said the suspect had inflicted loss upon the national exchequer by illegitimately allotting the plot.

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Fake bank accounts case 

A banking court on January 19 had issued a notice to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on an application filed by Omni Group tycoon Anwar Majeed and his son Abdul Ghani Majeed seeking post-arrest bail in the fake bank accounts and money laundering case.

The court had directed FIA to submit its response to the bail plea.

The applicants through their counsel had contended before the court that the agency had failed to produce evidence to corroborate charges against them. “FIA has been taking action against us on political basis.” They, therefore, pleaded to the court to grant them bail.

PPP Co-Chairperson Asif Ali Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, close aide Anwar Majeed and others are facing a probe into the money laundering scam involving over Rs35 billion laundered through fake bank accounts.