Non-bailable warrants for suspects in Eden scam.

LAHORE -- An accountability court on Monday issued non-bailable arrest warrants for four suspects in Eden Housing Scheme scam including son-in-law of former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.

Earlier, the court had issued bailable warrants for the arrest of the suspects. However, they did not turn up and the court finally issued non-bailable warrants for Feb 19.

On a previous hearing, the NAB had told the court that the suspects were yet to join the investigation. It said there were over 11,000 affectees of the housing scam unearthed in 2013.

Several affectees were also present in the court during the hearing.

The suspects include Murtaza Amjad, son-in-law of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Dr Amjad, Mustafa Amjad and Anam Amjad.

According to the NAB, the suspects collected Rs18.9 billion from public through fraud and fled the country.

In September 2018, Federal Investigation Agency had arrested Murtaza Amjad in Dubai. However, he was set at liberty owing to unavailability of sufficient evidence against him. The properties owned by Eden were worth Rs22 billion.

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