Moonis Elahi gets interim bail till July 4 in money laundering case.

LAHORE -- A banking court in Lahore granted on Wednesday Pakistan Muslim League-Q leader Moonis Elahi an interim bail till July 4 in a money laundering case, registered against him by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

The court asked the FIA to submit the record of the case.

The complainant apprised the judge that the registration of the money laundering case against him was politically motivated. The counsel said Elahi was implicated in the case and that he did not 'control the companies' mentioned by the FIA.

The lawyer said the PML-Q lawmaker was not involved in money laundering or any other such criminal activities.

According to the FIA's first information report, the case against Elahi was registered on June 15 under Sections 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of a common intention), 109 (punishment for abetment), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating) and 471 (using a genuine forged document) of the Pakistan Penal Code, read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 and Section 4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2010.

The FIR said the agency's Anti-Corruption Circle in Lahore had registered an inquiry on...