An application filed on Tuesday by one-member Shoaib Suddle Commission sought more time to investigate alleged business deals worth Rs 342 million between the son of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and business tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain. According to the application, Riaz has not appeared before the commission as yet. Besides, Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and other concerned departments have not furnished the relevant record regarding the case.
The commission also intended to nominate forensic experts to examine the relevant record of the case. In view of these reasons, the commission requested the SC to give it further time to investigate the matter. Earlier, accepting the review petition of Dr Arsalan on August 30, Supreme Court had constituted a one-member commission comprising Dr Shoaib Suddle to investigate the matter. Dr Suddle, the incumbent Federal Tax Ombudsman, is a senior functionary having experience of investigations in the police and fiscal hierarchies. "The professionalism and thoroughness of the inquiry undertaken by Dr Shoaib in SMC 16 of 2010 (ISAF Containers Scam) has also persuaded us to refer this inquiry to him," the court said in its August 30 order.