Pakistan deputy PM Ishaq Dar (File photo)
The women met Raza Dar in Singapore in 2025 and invited him to invest in their cryptocurrency business, according to the police report. They were forced to transfer $19,500, as per the police report. He directed the prosecution to present its witnesses on December 9 so that the formal trial proceedings could begin,” the official said.
“Lahore court judge Rafaqat Ali Gondal framed charges against the suspects, who pleaded not guilty. The women were later taken to a house in Lahore’s Defence Housing Authority, where they were allegedly held captive and pressured to repay the money.
Earlier, police in Pakistan’s Punjab province had cleared Raza Dar and his four accomplices of charges in the case, instead charging three other employees of Ishaq Dar’s grandson of raping the women. A Pakistani court on Wednesday framed charges against eight suspects, including the grandson of deputy Prime Minister Ishaq Dar, in connection with the gang rape of two foreign women , an official said.