Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday issued notice to super modal Ayyan Ali on a petition of Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) seeking the court permission to probe financial sources of the respondent. The FBR has challenged the verdict of Special Judge Customs, Taxation and Anti Smuggling of March 30, 2016 before the IHC, which had turned down the Board request to investigate into Ayyan Ali involvement in currency smuggling case.
Appearing before a single member judge bench of Justice Athar Minallah on behalf of the FBR, Zahoor Ahmed Mughl sought permission of the court to investigate the source of income of the super model. While justifying his contention the lawyer pleaded that Ayyan Ali was apprehended from Benzair Bhutto International Airport Islamabad with $506800 saying under the fact the FBR intended to investigate the matter because she was not a taxpayer.
Under the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010, customs official had arrested Ayyan Ali from the airport after recovering an undeclared foreign currency from her bag after she secured boarding pass for a UAE flight. Citing Ayyan Ali's statement that as a result of property business transaction in Pakistan she had received the US dollars, Mughal expressed strange saying there was a reason to believe that the foreign currency was actually proceeds of crime. Mughal pleaded that real source of the seized currency was yet to be determined.