The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab has summoned PTI Chairman Imran Khan, his sister Dr Uzma Khan and her husband Ahad Majeed in Layyah land corruption case, spokesperson stated on Saturday.
According to a notification issued by the spokesperson, the PTI leader has been requested to seem before ACE headquarters on June 19 while Uzma and her husband were asked to present themselves before ACE DG Khan.
Earlier, Imran turned into summoned by means of ACE on June 16 but he did not seem before it.The summon became affixed at Imran’s Lahore Zaman Park residence.
The spokesperson maintained that the ACE had “clean evidence” of the PTI chairman’s involvement within the Layyah corruption scandal, including that pressure became exerted on revenue officials from Bani Gala – Imran’s house in Islamabad – for unlawful transfer of land.
Uzma is accused of alleged fraud in buy of 5,261-kanal of land in Layyah district, reportedly really worth billions of rupees, for a trifling Rs130 million. The ACE stated that an FIR were registered in opposition to the couple.
According to the spokesperson, the land became bought in 2021-22 through fraud, adding that Uzma and Majeed made a faux switch of the land on their names.
He stated the marker fee of the land become approximately Rs6 billion. The buy, he introduced, changed into made when the ADB introduced aid for the Greater Thal Canal mission, which aimed toward irrigating the barren lands via Thal canal.
The spokesperson said Uzma had prior know-how of the mission, so the couple forced the landowner to sell it to them. He delivered that the landowners had filed complaints against Uzma and others to the police for forcibly shopping for the land.
The spokesperson introduced that the function of other officers and officials worried inside the fraud could be investigated, stressing that their 0-tolerance coverage in opposition to the corrupt elements would maintain.