Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) president Pervaiz Elahi was produced by Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) officials in Gujranwala court.
He was produced in the court of Duty Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Afzal, where anti-corruption officials will request the court to give him physical remand.
Elahi was brought to the ACE regional office in Gujranwala from Lahore this morning.
Yesterday, the judge of the special anti-corruption court in Lahore issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Elahi and ordered the authorities to produce him by June 2. However, minutes later, he was arrested again in a corruption case registered against him in Gujranwala. ACE Punjab.
The Cases
It should be noted that two cases have been registered in Gujranwala for taking kickbacks in awarding contracts against the former Chief Minister of Punjab, while one case has been registered against the former Chief Minister in Lahore.
Earlier, a special anti-corruption court judge in Lahore issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Elahi and ordered the authorities to produce him by June 2. Two arrest warrants have been issued for the PTI leader. The first was released on May 25 after cancellation of bail while the second was released on May 26.
In April, ACE Gujranwala filed a case against the PTI president, citing a report, which accused the former Punjab chief minister of taking a bribe of Rs 2 billion for a contract for a development scheme.
In another case, an FIR No. 6/23 was registered against Elahi for accepting a bribe of Rs 120 million from an international organization – a Turkish company.
The anti-corruption court judge also dismissed Elahi’s medical certificate, which claimed he had chest pain, as bogus.
