Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore has issued show cause notices to Ch Pervaiz Elahi’s son Rasikh Elahi and his wife Zahra as well as Moonis Elahi’s wife Tehreem in a money laundering case. 

According to the 24NewsHdTV channel, the FIA issued notices under the Money Laundering Act 2010 following a court order. 

According to the sources, FIA also issued show cause notices to other co-accused in the case including Qaiser Iqbal Bhatti and Abid Bhatti. 

In the show- cause notices, the FIA asked all the accused for money trail and evidence of the properties made through money laundering. 

All the accused are directed to respond to the show cause notices at the earliest.

It is pertinent to note that the FIA registered a FIR against Pervaiz Elahi’s son after the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly. The agency accused him committing money laundering of over Rs30 million

According to the FIA, the State Bank of Pakistan had detected some transactions involving huge amounts of money in the bank accounts of Qaisar Bhatti (a lower cadre employee of the Punjab Assembly) and three others. In this amount, some amount has been transferred to Rasikh and other Elahi family members. 

The sources said, the FIA has made some progress in the investigation against Parvez Elahi and his family members.

Earlier this week, a Lahore court had ordered the freezing of properties and accounts worth billions of rupees.

The suspects have been asked to produce the money trail of the properties accumulated through alleged money laundering. 

The court issued order to freeze bank accounts of Munis Elahi's wife Tehreem Elahi worth billions of rupees. Properties measuring 17,427 kanal worth Rs10 billion have so far been frozen. 

The court also issued order to freeze about 22 bank accounts of all co-accused as per the court order. Sources said that these accounts received around Rs3.5 billion.

Corruption money was laundered through various benami bank accounts and benami companies.