A court on Tuesday issued arrest warrants for super model Ayyan Ali in currency smuggling case.
According to reports, Sheraz Kiani, judge of a Customs Court, conducted the hearing of the case during which Ayyan Ali’s lawyer prayed his client be exempted from appearing in the court. The lawyer argued that the model was unable to appear as she was staying in Dubai due to illness of her mother.
Rejecting the plea, the court issued orders for her arrest, directing the authorities to present Ayyan Ali on June 21. She was arrested from Islamabad Airport on March 14, 2015 before boarding a flight to Dubai on the charges of money laundering after Customs officials recovered $506,000 from her luggage. The model was finally allowed to travel abroad after the apex court upheld Sindh High Court orders asking the government to remove her name from the ECL earlier this year.
