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Five housing scam accused jailed

By Our Correspondent
November 21, 2018

LAHORE: An accountability court on Tuesday awarded 15-year jail term to five convicts over the charges of looting public money in a housing society. The court imposed a fine of Rs 58 million on them. The convicts including Ghulam Ali, Zaka Ullah, Assad Alia, Riaz Bhatti and Ahmad Shah looted a large amount of public money in Irrigation Employees Cooperative Housing Society, Gujranwala. The court acquitted accused Farrukh Zaman in this case and declared a female accused, Tanveer Hamyoun, as proclaimed offender.