Former FIA director Dr Rizwan passes away

Lahore: Former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director Dr Muhammad Rizwan has died of a heart attack on Monday, GNN reported. 

According to details, Dr Rizwan was rushed to Lahore's Services Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. 

Mr. Rizwan was posted as Director FIA Punjab and was removed from the post as soon as the present government came. 

It is pertinent to mention here that Dr Rizwan was heading the entire investigations of FIA against Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shehbaz Sharif and his family in the Ramzan Sugar Mills case, Jahangir Khan Tareen in the JDW Sugar Mills case, the family of federal minister Khusro Bakhtiar as well as the Chaudaries of Gujrat in the Alliance Sugar Mills case. 

In 2018, when the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government formed, Rizwan remained attached to Asset Recovery Unit (ARU) led by Shahzad Akbar. Which later earned him the post of Director FIA Lahore Zone-I in December 2019.