Summary Top model Ayyan Ali was hopeful that she will win the case.
RAWALPINDI (Web Desk) – The special court of customs, excise and taxation on Tuesday approved top model Ayyan Ali’s surety bonds worth Rs2 million to return her passport which was confiscated after her arrest in the money-laundering case in March this year, Dunya News reported.
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In a previous hearing, the court had maintained that Ayyan‘s passport is important documentary evidence in the currency smuggling case.
Whereas, counsel of the accused, Khurram Latif Khosa told court that the passport is Ayyan‘s "bread and butter" as she frequently travels abroad as part of her modelling contracts.
Last week, the customs court formally indicted her with attempted currency smuggling.
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The model has been the focus of media‘s attention since police captured her as she waited in a VIP airport lounge in Islamabad. Under Pakistani laws, no one can carry over $10,000 on a flight, but authorities found $506,800 tucked into Ali s luggage.
She has maintained the money was solely hers.
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