Earlier the trial court dismissed acquittal plea of Ayyan Ali in the case and ordered the prosecution team to present evidences and witnesses for formal hearing.
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The model was arrested on Mar 14, 2015, on charges of money laundering after being caught with over half a million dollars by customs officials at Islamabad’s Benazir Bhutto global Airport.
The supermodel was granted bail in July after spending around four months in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail and after her judicial remand was extended 16 times. However, she has claimed not to be guilty.
She was about to board a flight to Dubai when officials found Dollars 506,000 from her luggage, which is crime as a passenger can carry maximum USD 10,000 while flying out.
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The accused accompanied by her counsel Sardar Latif Khosa made their appearance before Customs Court Judge Rana Aftab Ahmad while Farhat Lodhi appeared on behalf of Pakistan Customs and Amin Feroze represented Customs Intelligence. The next hearing in the case was set for December 8, he added. My client’s profession is dependent on passport because she needs to travel overseas for shooting, he argued. She says that she received the money after selling a few of her properties and at the airport, she was attempting to hand it over to her brother before boarding a Dubai-bound plane.
