Elahi was re-arrested shortly after his release.
Former Punjab Chief Minister Zaman’s foreman is taken into FIA custody for a four-day physical remand.
After being granted freedom on Saturday by a Lahore special court in a graft case in exchange for Rs10,000 in surety bonds, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was detained again on Monday.
After a large police presence showed up outside the District Camp Jail, sources said it was likely that Elahi would be released.
Elahi, the former chief minister of Punjab, was taken from prison in an armoured vehicle by agents from the Federal Investigation Agency. In their sixth investigation, the FIA squad nabbed him.
To secure Elahi’s 14-day physical remand, the FIA brought him before the district and sessions court.
The official in charge of the inquiry stated that Elahi had been detained in connection with a fresh case involving questionable transactions involving millions of rupees.
Elahi was placed on judicial remand after the court denied the FIA’s plea for a physical remand.
However, Mohammad Zaman Chaudhry, Elahi’s personal gunman and front man, was apprehended by the FIA’s anti-money laundering branch.
Sources claim that Elahi’s cash boy and frontman Zaman is involved in money laundering. The FIA claims that Zaman used to give Elahi’s third wife, Saira Anwar, millions of rupees that he had corruptly obtained.
According to the sources, the police caught Zaman red-handed in February 2023 as he was delivering alcohol to Saira from Punjab House Islamabad at Elahi’s behest.
The forensic analysis of Zaman’s phone provided the FIA with crucial information. The FIA has secured a physical remand for Zaman for a period of four days.
