Former adviser to the prime minister on interior and accountability and an officer of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) along with other persons were booked by the capital police under different charges, police said on Saturday.
The case was registered at the Secretariat police station under section 420, 468, 471, 385, 396, 389, 500 and 506 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) in response to a complaint lodged by Omer Farooq Zahoor, a resident of Dubai and an entrepreneur. He also served as an African country’s ambassador at large. Mr Zahoor is the person who had revealed that he had bought a priceless watch of Toshakhana from a former prime minister of Pakistan.
Along the former adviser Shahzad Akbar Mirza and FIA officer Ali Mardan Shah, Khushbakht Mirza, Mariam Mirza, Maira Khurram and Umaid Butt have been booked in the case, as reported by DAWN.
According to the FIR, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s Corporate Crime Circle in Lahore had initiated an inquiry based on a report submitted by the applicant’s ex-wife Khushbakht Mirza. The inquiry led to the registration of two FIRs dated October 5, 2020, and October 10, 2020.
