ISLAMABAD: A
Special investigation team, headed by a Brigadier-rank-officer to
probe PML-N senior leader
Rana Sanaullah Khan, has questioned around half a dozen accused arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) in a drug related case in the past two days.The five members
team would continue to
probe around dozen accused in thishigh profile case of drug smuggling for coming two weeks as the magistrate extended the judicial remand of all the accused including
Rana Sanaullah Khan in this case on Tuesday in Lahore. "Investigation
team investigated
Rana Sana for over
three hours in Lahore on Monday," a senior ANF official confirmed to this correspondent. "Rana Sanaullah did not own the recovered drugs from his vehicle. He also called spade a spade that he had never been in links with narcotics business," added the official on condition of anonymity.The investigation
team has left many queries pertaining to his alleged link with drug traffickers, now in ANF custody, who were involved in narcotics business in Faisalabad, Lahore and Gujranwala, added the sources. "Two of five arrested narcotics smugglers also confessed to have link with
Rana Sanaullah," added another ANF official who was familiar with the latest development. But close sources of
Rana Sanaullah said that two of five arrested narcotics smugglers who confessed to have link with
Rana Sana were made to confess this under duress, and what was fed them was total lie. The investigation
team also questioned five other accused on Monday, sources further revealed.Last week,
three senior officials of Ministry of Narcotics and ANF (prosecution team) met with PTI leader Babar Awan too where they finalised their legal strategy in Lahore, sources told Geo News. It is also pertinent to mention here that the
Special Investigation Cell (SIC) comprising different intelligence agencies operators was working on this case. The sources said some six to seven alleged front men, including a suspect named Bukhari, earlier arrested by the SIC provided solid information to the ANF
team allegedly linking
Rana Sanaullah to a narcotics scam.The sources said the alleged front men in ANF custody told investigators they were allegedly raising funds through narcotics businesses for
Rana Sanaullah, and he funds were later being funneled to proscribed organisations. These claims and allegations have yet to be proved true before the court law. The suspects, whose information led to Sanaullah's arrest, were arrested
three months back. The sources said the ANF had gathered data of calls showing
Rana Sanaullah's connections with the alleged front men. This was one of the reasons
Rana Sana was arrested, a sources privy to the inside developments told this scribe.
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