ISLAMABAD, June 16: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday summoned Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader and son of Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi for questioning on June 23 when he failed to satisfy the interrogators in the money laundering case. According to the copy of the questionnaire as well as the answers given by Moonis to the FIA, the suspect was asked whether he knew Mazhar Abbas and Nawaz Bhatti, two other persons nominated in the case; whether he knew Punjab Assembly Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti; and if he knew all of them then how the PA secretary was related to Nawaz Bhatti and Mazhar Abbas. Similarly, Moonis was asked had he ever met with Wajid Khan, nephew of PA Secretary Muhammad Khan Bhatti; did he have any information that both Nawaz Bhatti and Mazhar Abbas were government employees or his family had ever played any role in the appointment of Mazhar. Likewise, the question was put to him about the nature of his relationship with Umer Shehryar; whether it was personal or related to business. Moonis replied that he had come to know about the money laundering case against him through media reports. He denied that he had ever been involved in any financial embezzlement, and that all the allegations levelled against him were false, fabricated and baseless. “All my assets are declared in the tax returns I submit to the Income Tax department,” he said, adding that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had already probed his assets. – NNI
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