NAB approves inquiry against Shaukat Yousafzai, Zehri, MNA Jafar Leghari
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February 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The executive board of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday allowed to file two corruption references, eight inquiries and similar number of investigations against a former chief minister, ministers, parliamentarians and others.
Reports said the NAB allowed inquiries against the KP Minister for Information Shaukat Ali Yousafzai and former chief minister Balochistan, Nawab Sanaullah Zehri, besides holding inquiries against MNA Sardar Jafar Khan Leghari and Raja Khan Mehar. While it also ordered closing the inquiry against former chief minister Punjab and former federal minister Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo. The meeting of the executive board was chaired by chairman NAB, Justice (retd) Javed Iqbal, in which it approved filing of two corruption references, eight inquires and eight investigations.
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday decided to launch probe against former home minister of Sindh Sohail Anwar Siyal and Awais Muzaffar Tappi, a close aide to former president Asif Ali Zardari, in corruption cases.
The decision was made in a meeting of the bureau’s executive board presided over by NAB chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal.
According to an official press release, the meeting approved conduct of five investigations against different suspects, including officers of Special Initiative Department, Sindh; Messrs Pak Oasis Industries Private Limited and others; Aslam Shah, chairman PMS, GIEDA; Farid Ahmed, former managing director, GIDA; management of Sindh fisheries department; Sohail Anwar Siyal; Ali Anwar; and management of the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA).
By News DeskISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau has decided to investigate former Sindh home minister Sohail Anwer Siyal and approved filing a reference against a Sindh Assembly lawmaker.
NAB reference filed against Saleem Mandviwala
Senate deputy chairman is accused of facilitating sale of govt plots, receiving money through fake accounts
ISLAMABAD:
In a major breakthrough in the fake accounts scandal, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has filed a reference against Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwala over Kidney Hills plots allotment case.
NAB has nominated Saleem Mandviwala, Nadeem Mandviwala, Ejaz Haroon, Abdul Ghani Majeed and Tariq Mahmood as the accused. Saleem Mandviwala is alleged to have facilitated Ejaz Haroon in selling government plots to Omni Group’s Abdul Ghani Majeed.
According to the NAB reference, Haroon received huge sums of money from fake accounts in exchange for the plots. He prepared backdated files of the plots and then Mandviwala assisted him in selling them to Abdul Ghani Majeed.
Pakistan faces another setback in Reko Diq case
British Virgin Islands court passes an order to attach some of country’s assets in its territories
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Pakistan is faced with another setback on the international legal front as the British Virgin Islands high court has passed an order to attach some of its assets due to Pakistan’s failure to provide bank guarantee to an international arbitrator in the Reko Diq case.
Sources revealed to The Express Tribune that the high court of the British Virgin Islands passed an ex parte order on December 16 regarding the attachment of Pakistani assets.