PTI leader seeks more time to face FIA probe
ISLAMABAD: Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-insaf (PTI) leader Jahangir Tareen has told the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) that he could not appear before as he was in London for his treatment.
He requested the FIA to grant him more time to respond to its investigations against him and his son Ali about the sugar mills scam.
The FIA is holding an investigation against Jahangir Tareen and his son for alleged money laundering and a sugar scam. The Combined Investigation Team (CIT) of the FIA had summoned Tareen but instead of appearing before the CIT, Tareen, through a leter, requested the CIT to give him more time.
The leter stated that the CIT call-up notice dated September 15 was received in the aternoon of the same day at the Head Office of JDW Sugar Mills Limited in Lahore in which he Tareen was asked to appear before the CIT on Sept.19.
Tareen said he is currently in England, undergoing medical check-ups, tests and consultations with doctors for an ongoing medical condition.
“I am therefore unable to appear before the CIT,” Tareen said.
In view of the short notice and the fact that the queries pertained to documentary evidence, he requested the CIT to give him reasonable time and opportunity to consult the relevant record. “This will enable me to adequately assist the CIT and respond to its queries at an alternate future date,” he concluded.
Earlier, Ali had also skipped his appearance before the CIT in the same investigation as he is also in England with his father. They both had let the country ater the Sugar Commission report surfaced. The FIA said Tareen will be summoned again.
However, the date has not been decided yet. In April this year reacting to the FIA report about the sugar and wheat scandals, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday removed some concerned ministers, advisers and bureaucrats.
Jahangir Tareen, who was the chairman of the agriculture task force, was also removed. However, Tareen said he was never notified as the task force chief.