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Accountability court to hear case against Aleem Khan today

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LAHORE: An accountability court will resume the hearing of assets beyond means and offshore companies case against former Punjab minister Aleem Khan on Monday (today).

Khan, who is in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah will not appear before the anti-graft watchdog body.

On May 15, the Lahore High Court (LHC) had granted bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Aleem Khan in assets beyond means and offshore companies case.

A two-judge bench, headed by Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, had approved the bail of the PTI leader against a surety bond of Rs1 million. The court ordered his release if his custody was not required in any other case.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had taken the former Punjab senior minister into custody on Feb 7 after he reportedly failed to satisfy the bureau’s officials about sources of his income in connection with his offshore companies.

Read more: Aleem Khan released from Kot Lakhpat Jail

He has been accused of buying more than 900 kanal land in different villages of Lahore in the name of his company M/s A&A Pvt. Ltd. and also paid advances for additional 600 kanal land for which he could not account for the sources of the investments.

In year 2005 and 2006, apart from inland assets, he established offshore companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the United Kingdom (UK) with these companies acquiring assets of extensive value which are beyond known sources of income of the accused.

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