ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the Ministry of Interior has barred the main accused in the Rs 25 billion scam of Grand Hyatt Hotel case from travelling abroad on the recommendation of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Lahore zone. Sources in the interior ministry and FIA confirmed that the following 12 accused had been placed on the ECL. FIA also disclosed earlier that the owner of the multi-storey Grand Hyatt Hotel, which has now been sealed, gave several apartments away as ‘gifts’. In January this year, the owners of the BNP had submitted a report carrying details of flat bookings in the under-construction Grand Hyatt Hotel before the IHC. Soon after the lease became controversial and the FIA started probing the scandal, the CDA terminated the lease for the Grand Hyatt Hotel in August last year.

Source: Pakistan Today December 13, 2017 18:22 UTC