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Zafar Abdullah appointed SECP Chairman

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SANA MAHMOOD 

ISLAMABAD: Finance Department have issued two notifications on Monday (24th July). One to suspend Zafar Hijazi (who is in FIA custody accused of tempering with documents to provide support to PM Shairf) and the other to appoint Zafar Abdullah as acting chairman of SECP.

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Zafar Abdullah to head SECP following arrest of Zafar Hijazi

SANA MAHMOOD

ISLAMABAD: As Chairman SECP Zafar Hijazi is in FIA custody, Govt has decided to appoint Zafar Abdullah as acting Chairman.

Notification of his appointment has been sent to the PM for approval.

Zafar Abdullah is currently serving as senior commissioner at SECP.

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Record Tempering: SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi taken into custody from inside the court

SANA MAHMOOD

ISLAMABAD: The SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi has been taken into custody today from inside the court where he appeared to get his bail confirmed. 
Readers may recall that JIT (probing Panamagate against the sitting PM Sharif) has found that Hijazi has tempered with the SECP documents (including that apropos Chaudhry Sugar Mills) to favor the PM whose family  is facing money laundering case presently.
FIA that has submitted a 28-page report to SC was instructed by the apex court to book him. FIA has registered FIR against him u/s 466 (forgery) and 471 (using forged documents as original) of PPC. 

SECP CHAIRMAN ZAFAR HIJAZI TAMPERED SHARIF FAMILY RECORDS: FIA 

 

SECP Chairman Zafar Hijazi tampered Sharif family records: FIA 

SANA MAHMOOD

ISLAMABAD: Chairman Zafar Hijazi has been found guilty of tampering records of PM Nawaz Sharif’s companies by FIA’s inquiry team.

The security team has also recommended that the concerned authorities should register FIR against Hijazi. 

It is pertinent to mention here that three-member Supreme Court bench had asked DG of FIA to launch an inquiry into JIT allegations vis-à-vis tempering Nawaz records.

RECORD-TAMPERING CASE: SECP CHAIRMAN GETS PRE-ARREST BAIL TILL JULY 21

 

Record-tampering case: SECP chairman gets pre-arrest bail till July 21

ISLAMABAD: Zafar Hijazi, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) was granted pre-arrest bail by the High Court here until July 21 in a Sharif family-owned company’s record tampering case.

Hijazi was granted bail by a special judge of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) after the submission of two surety bonds worth Rs.250, 000.

IHC has earlier granted him protective bail till July 17.