KARACHI, June 17: The Federal Investigation Agency has booked the wife and mother of a former speaker of the National Assembly, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in another corruption case.

Sources said Mrs Fauzi Gilani and her mother-in-law, Syeda Samina Abrar, already convicted by an accountability court in absentia in a wilful bank default case, were booked along with other directors of Pak Green Fertilizer Ltd by the Commercial Banks Circle (CBC) of the FIA for missappropiating the hypthecated machinery, worth more than Rs1.5 million.

Others booked were Chaudhry Munawwar Hussain, managing director, and directors Khalid Hussain, Ziaur Rahman, Mrs Naseem Munawwar and Mrs Anwar Nasreen.

The FIR was lodged under sections 406, 420, 468, 471 and 34 of PPC on the complaint of the Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan.

According to the complaint, Pak Green Fertilizer availed a loan of Rs71.223 million on April 21, 1988 to run the project. However, on July 28, 2001 during an inspection of the site certain hypothecated goods were found missing.

The missing articles included oil and gas burners for rotary dryers, burners of heat boilers and control panels.