Axact CEO directed to appear before court on 21st

KARACHI: A local court has directed the Axact CEO Shoaib Shaikh, his wife Aisha Shoaib and 12 other Axact employees to appear on October 21 before the court along with their witnesses, rejecting the claim of the prosecution that they were not involved in the Axact fake degree scam.

Shoaib Shaikh, Aisha Shoaib, Waqas Ateeq, Zeeshan Anwar, Muhammad Sabir, Zeeshan Ahmed and others have been indicted by Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Sohail Ahmed Leghari in an Axact fake degree case. Since the accused had denied the charges and pleaded not guilty, the court directed them to appear along with their witnesses on October 21. Shoiab Shaikh, Aisha Shaikh, Zeeshan Anwar, Zeeshan Ahmed, Waqas Ateeq, Muhammad Sabir and others are alleged to have issued fake degrees, diplomas and also set illegal online services and earned huge sums by selling degrees, diplomas and certificates. It may be mentioned that almost all the accused have already obtained bail in this case by the Sindh High Court.

Shoaib Sheikh and others had to face money laundering cases but were later acquitted from the charges on the grounds that despite of the passage of more than one year, no witnesses had come up against them. On Friday, the Additional District and Sessions Judge (Judicial Complex) noted that the key accused (Shoaib Shaikh) in collaboration with two co-accused Junaid and Younus had transferred around Rs170m from Pakistan to other countries.