Shahid Afridi among 10 have been booked in construction project fraud case. Former Pakistan cricket team captain Shahid Afridi and nine others have been named in a case concerning alleged fraud in a housing society project, according to a complaint filed by Abid bin Abdul Qudoos.
The case has been registered at Rawat Police Station, with the other suspects identified as Sheikh Fawad Bashir, Shehzad Kayani, Umar Bashir, Farooq Bashir, Kashif, Usman, Nasira Bashir, Iftikhar Ilyas, Hafeezur Rehman, and Malik Sohail Ahmed.
The complaint alleges that the suspects utilized electronic, print, and social media platforms, prominently featuring Shahid Afridi, to lure the public into investing in the AAA Business Centre project.
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Qudoos claims to have been persuaded by these advertisements and subsequently booked two shops on the mezzanine floor of the project, having paid a total of Rs5.5 million for shop number 17 and Rs4 million for shop number 15 directly to the suspects’ company.
However, Qudoos alleges that the suspects engaged in deliberate deception to defraud investors.
He asserts that the stamp papers provided to him were issued with past dates and that the rental agreement was based on a past-dated stamp paper.
Additionally, Qudoos alleges that while some agreements bore Sheikh Fawad’s signature, they were purportedly signed by someone else.
Moreover, Qudoos accuses the suspects of unlawfully allotting the same shop to multiple customers, indicating a systematic pattern of fraudulent activity within the project.
The allegations against Afridi and the other suspects highlight serious concerns regarding transparency and accountability within the housing project.
As Shahid Afridi among 10 have been booked in construction project fraud case, authorities are expected to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter to ascertain the validity of the claims and take appropriate legal action as necessary.
