ISLAMABAD: The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab and police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf President and former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi from his Zahoor Elahi Palace residence on Thursday evening.
TV footage showed ACE and police personnel whisking away the PTI leader from a raid at his residence.
Elahi, who had been evading raids for his arrests, was booked by the ACE Gujranwala, accusing him of taking Rs2 billion in a bribe for approving a development scheme.
Earlier, the Punjab police booked Elahi on terror charges following rioting and arson on May 9, targeting government and military installations after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan from the Islamabad High Court premises.
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was present in his house on Monday when the ACE and police teams raided his house and arrested him, sources said.
Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi is facing two corruption cases besides a criminal case registered against him in Mandi Burhauddin.
On May 26, Elahi did not appear in court in a criminal case registered against him and his bail was cancelled. The court had issued his non-bailable arrest warrants.
Police had been raiding Pervaiz Elahi’s residences in Lahore and Gujrat for the last couple of days. Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was evading his arrests after the cancellation of bail, but the ACE Punjab and police anti-corruption forces arrested him and shifted him to the ACE headquarters Lahore for further investigation, the sources said.
