LAHORE: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has registered FIRs against 50 politicians, mostly from the opposition, on land grabbing and other charges during the last one month or so in the province.
According to the ACE, among the suspects were those who had constructed eight illegal housing societies, five filling stations, five illegal protein farms, one illegal wagon stand, one illegal commercial market and one illegal marriage hall, thus causing a loss of Rs3,424 million to the national exchequer.
Prominent among those booked by the ACE are PML-N’s Ghulam Dastagir, Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjah, Saiful Malook Khokhar, Javed Latif and Ashraf Butt, former federal ministers Khwaja Asif and Danial Aziz, former MNAs Javed Hashmi and Waseem Akhtar and former MPAs Muhammad Ikram, Rizwan Gill, Amjad Ali Javed, Ehsanul Haq Bajwa, Chaudhry Sarfraz Afzal and Meer Badshah Qaiserani. Almost all of them are on pre-arrest bail.