Moeen Aftab charged with Rs22b corruption

An Anti-Corruption Court charged former Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) chairman Moeen Aftab and his accomplices with Rs22billion embezzlement, Dunya News reported on Tuesday. The court led by judge Shaukat Memon resumed hearing the Steel Mills corruption case and indicted nine people. Other than Moin Aftab, Brigadier Abdul Qayyum, Imtiaz-ul Hassan, Asghar Ali Farooq, Syed Zahid Ali Hashmi, Muhammad Aslam, Ali Haider and Najmuddin were indicted. The FIA had sought time to file the final challan in the case. However, counsel for Moin Aftab told the court over nine months had passed in between and therefore the interim challan should be considered as the final one.