Special Judge CNS Arshad Mehmood Ta-bassum issued orders to freeze the assets of Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Ali Musa Gilani, Fauzia Gilani, Khushnood Lashari former Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, Narcotics Control secretary Zafar Abbas Lak, former health director general Dr Rashid Jumma, former acting director general health Dr Asad Hafeez, chief executive of Berlix Lab Multan Rizwan Ahmed Khan, alleged front man of Ali Musa Gilani, Tauqir Ahmed Khan, Director CAN Pharma Multan Hashim Tareen (allegedly involved in making a fake distribution network for Berlex), Director Florence Pharma Islamabad Ehsanur Rehman, Director Florence Pharma Multan Chaudhry Abdul Waheed Majid, Director Danas Pharma Islamabad Colonel Tahir Lahoti (Retd) and Executive Director Danas Pharma Islamabad Ansar Farooq.
The court issued notices to all the accused to ascertain their version and directed them to give details of their sources of income and how they accumulated such huge amounts of wealth. The court adjourned the hearing till Fe 12. An Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) said that the force had earlier froze the assets of all of the accused in the ephedrine quota case and moved the court to get confirmation for attachment of their property. He said the investigation team could seek under Section 38 of the Control of Narcotic Substances (CNS) Act details of the assets of the accused from banks, financial institutions and revenue offices. Under Section 31 of the act, all government and private organisations were bound to inform the ANF about their assets.
The ANF said under the act, it in the first phase traced movable and immovable property of the accused and their close relatives; in the second phase assets were attached under court's directives; and in the third phase they would be confiscated if it was established that they had been acquired as a result of a narcotics deal or deals.