LAHORE: An accountability court on Monday extended interim pre-arrest bail of Anjum Amjad, the wife of Eden Housing Scheme owner late Dr Muhammad Amjad, with a direction to finalise her plea bargain with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in a Rs25 billion scam by April 4.

Hundreds of affectees of the housing scam gathered outside the accountability court as Ms Amjad arrived there with her counsel on expiry of her pre-arrest bail.

The counsel for Ms Amjad told the court that a meeting of his client with the chairman of the NAB had been delayed due to law and order situation in Islamabad.

Presiding judge Sajjad Ahmad adjourned the hearing till April 4 and directed the counsel to finalise the plea bargain with the NAB.

According to the NAB there are over 12000 affectees of the housing scam unearthed in 2013.

The suspects had collected over Rs25 billion from the public through fraud and fled the country.

In September 2018, the Federal Investigation Agency had arrested Murtaza in Dubai. However, he was freed owing to unavailability of sufficient evidence against him. The properties owned by Eden were worth Rs22 billion.

Published in Dawn, March 29th, 2022