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May 20, 2021
LAHORE: Banking and sessions’ court Wednesday extended interim bail of Jahangir Khan Tareen and his son Ali Khan Tareen till May 31 in cases of alleged corporate fraud, fake accounts and money-laundering, filed by the FIA against the Tareens. Tareens attended court proceedings accompanied by provincial minister Nauman Langrial, adviser Faisal Jabwana, MNAs Raja Riaz, Sami Gilani, Kh Shiraz and Mubeen Alam along with MPAs Zawar Warraich, Asif Majeed, Nazeer Baloch, Ghulam Rasul Sanga, Khurram Leghari, Sh Naeem, Muhammad Ameen and Aslam Bharwana.
According to the FIR against the Tareen family, the FIA stated that during the course of inquiry, a fraudulent and premeditated scheme of misappropriation of public shareholders’ money by Jahangir Khan Tareen surfaced, whereby the JDW (a public limited listed company-CEO Jahangir Tareen) fraudulently transferred Rs3.14 billion to an associated private company, Farooqi Pulp Mills Ltd Gujrat (FPML), owned by his so
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May 4, 2021
LAHORE: Famous politician and sugar-baron Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) has said he will not comment on what Shah Mehmood Qureshi said about him and his aides as what he said was below his dignity.
Talking to the media after appearing before a banking and sessions court here on Monday, he said the meeting of his friends with Prime Minister Imran Khan was held in a cordial atmosphere. The PM had given the case responsibility to Ali Zafar Advocate, promising that their reservations would be addressed and justice would be dispensed, JKT added.
He said his was not a criminal case and the FIA had no role in it. âThese are business cases; not a public fund or secret fund case,â Tareen said adding âI have been under investigation for over a year and I have made 78 appearances before the authorities concerned.
PM promised addressing reservations, says Tareen
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May 4, 2021
LAHORE: Famous politician and sugar-baron Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) has said he will not comment on what Shah Mehmood Qureshi said about him and his aides as what he said was below his dignity.
Talking to the media after appearing before a banking and sessions court here on Monday, he said the meeting of his friends with Prime Minister Imran Khan was held in a cordial atmosphere. The PM had given the case responsibility to Ali Zafar Advocate, promising that their reservations would be addressed and justice would be dispensed, JKT added. He said his was not a criminal case and the FIA had no role in it. “These are business cases; not a public fund or secret fund case,” Tareen said adding “I have been under investigation for over a year and I have made 78 appearances before the authorities concerned. “I am not talking about closing the cases, but seeking my right to a transparent inquiry.” To a ques
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May 4, 2021
LAHORE: Famous politician and sugar-baron Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) has said he will not comment on what Shah Mehmood Qureshi said about him and his aides as what he said was below his dignity.
Talking to the media after appearing before a banking and sessions court here on Monday, he said the meeting of his friends with Prime Minister Imran Khan was held in a cordial atmosphere. The PM had given the case responsibility to Ali Zafar Advocate, promising that their reservations would be addressed and justice would be dispensed, JKT added.
He said his was not a criminal case and the FIA had no role in it. “These are business cases; not a public fund or secret fund case,” Tareen said adding “I have been under investigation for over a year and I have made 78 appearances before the authorities concerned.
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April 23, 2021
LAHORE: Famous industrialist and politician Jahangir Khan Tareen (JKT) Thursday claimed that he had support of 40 members of the parliament (MPs).
After hearing of a corporate fraud and money-laundering case against him here, he shared with the media a recent development, saying that a day earlier some people from Islamabad contacted him and assured that his group would meet Prime Minister Imran Khan in a few days. He said his entire group would meet Imran Khan only.
About any political committee being formed to initiate talks with him, JKT said that he had heard about such a committee on television and not any member of such committee contacted them. It is good omen if any pleasant wind blows from Islamabad, JKT added. He showed his further satisfaction by saying that “our entire group will soon go to Islamabad to meet the prime minister”.