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National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday rearrested PTI President Parvez Elahi for allegedly receiving bribes over development project contracts, moments after he was freed from Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail.
The PTI president, a former chief minister of Punjab, was first taken into custody on June 1 as part of a corruption inquiry. He was released from detention in that instance the next day, only to be held in another.
Elahi was ordered to be released from Lahore’s Camp Jail, where he was being held in connection with a money laundering case, and was instead jailed for 30 days under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) rule.
Elahi was taken into custody from the Adiala Jai by the Lahore NAB team after the MPO detention was finished today.
Elahi’s legal team would challenge the arrest before the Lahore High Court (LHC), according to his lawyer, who described the detention as political.
Elahi was subsequently brought before a Rawalpindi sessions court by the Lahore NAB, where NAB prosecutors Raffay Malik and Sardar Tahir Ayub demanded that he be placed in a two-day transitory detention order so that the PTI leader could be shifted to Lahore.
The Lahore NAB was only given a temporary remand for one day, and the judge ordered Investigation Officer Najam Abbas to bring Elahi to the appropriate court “in safe custody” by tomorrow.
