evading law
Lahore
A special court on Tuesday declared Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Moonis Elahi a “proclaimed offender” for his continued absence from proceedings in a money laundering case filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The former federal minister, who fled the country in December 2022, is facing multiple cases of corruption and money laundering registered against him by the FIA, the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
Lahore’s Central Special Court judge Tanveer Ahmed Sheikh also issued a permanent arrest warrant for Moonis, while making the declaration.
“The accused has gone into hiding by design. FIA can take measures of Moonis’s arrest by reaching out to [International Criminal Police Organisation] Interpol,” the judge stated.
Reacting to the development, Moonis denied the charges in a post on microblogging site X.
