The NAB produced Aleem Khan in extraordinary security measures before the accountability court as all adjacent roads were closed by placing containers and barbed wires.
Hundreds of party workers and few leaders including former MPA Shoaib Siddiqui were also present outside the complex. The NAB officials used judges' compound to produce Aleem Khan that caused inconvenience to judges of other courts and also damaged door of the complex at ground floor.
The registrar of the accountability courts also issued a show cause notice to the NAB team concerned and directed them to appear personally before the Administrative Judge Syed Najamul Hassan Bokhari on Friday (today).
Earlier, the NAB special prosecutor demanded 15-day physical remand of Aleem Khan. He stated that the suspect, being a public office holder, acquired huge assets and established offshore companies that owned apartments and bank accounts. He said all these things were not proportionate to the known sources of income of the suspect.
The prosecutor further said that the suspect acquired more than 900 kanals of land worth Rs 600 million approximately in different parts of Lahore in the name of his company M/s A&A Pvt Ltd and also paid huge amount for additional 632 kanals of land which the suspect failed to justify.
He pointed out that Khan won Rs 19 million out of a prize bond draw in 2002 while he transferred Rs 190 million to his father and Rs 198 million to mother abroad.
The offshore companies of Khan, as per the NAB, were established in United Kingdom (UK) and United Arab Emirates (UAE) including Vision Developers, Vision Printers, A&A Developers, ZRR Investments U.K, Thomson Trading, R&R Free Zone Company, Titanium Holding FZE-UAE, Visions Holdings FZE-UAE, Principal Capital Investments FZE-UAE, SK Global Investments FZE-UAE, and Infomex Holding FZE-UAE.
The prosecutor said the offshore companies of the suspect acquired various flats/assets worth more than 30 million AED which were disproportionate to his known sources of income. He said the suspect established 35 companies from 2003 to 2017 in Pakistan making investments of approximately Rs 1 billion. He argued that physical remand of Aleem Khan was required to procure further evidence, detection of hidden assets and recovery of crime proceeds.
Representing Aleem Khan, Amjad Pervez opposed the request of the physical remand. The counsel argued that Aleem Khan possessed the assets worth Rs 878 million and all were declared in tax documents. He said all the documents available with the NAB were provided by his client.
Aleem Khan also told the court that all of his assets including companies and flats mentioned by the NAB were already declared. He said he appeared before the bureau's investigators whenever they summoned him. The former minister claimed that his arrest was nothing but a revenge for writing a letter to the NAB chairman.