ByAsim Yasin
ISLAMABAD: Denying all the allegations levelled against it, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sunday said it had time and again clarified and announced that it had no affiliation with any political party, individual or group and its affiliation was only with the State of Pakistan.
In a statement with regard to the Deputy Chairman Senate Salim Mandviwalla’s allegations against the NAB in a press talk on Saturday, the NAB said it will not come under any pressure or propaganda campaign.
Clarifying the media reports, the NAB said the land of Kidney Hill area was reserved for amenity purposes i.e. development of a public park. KDA has published a notification in the Gazette of Pakistan under Article 45 of KDA order dated 07-11-1966 & 05-09-1969 regarding Kidney Hill as KDA Scheme No 32 “FALAKNAMA” and proposed it to be a recreational area as park.
A NAB spokesman said in a statement on Sunday that the bureau would not bow down before any propaganda campaign about its working. Reuters/File
ISLAMABAD: Apparently responding to the remarks made by the Senate deputy chairman on Saturday, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has repudiated a “malicious propaganda campaign” being carried out in a section of media to malign the anti-graft watchdog by casting lopsided aspersions over the bureau.
A NAB spokesman said in a statement on Sunday that the bureau would not bow down before any propaganda campaign about its working.
The context used in some of the said media reports was premised on deliberate conjecturing and assumptions based on cherry picked surmises which were far from facts and aimed only to discredit NAB, he said.
NAB files reference against Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla
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The National Accountability Bureau filed on Wednesday a reference against Senate Deputy Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla in the fake accounts case.
This is the 11th reference filed by the anti-graft body in
the case. It has nominated seven individuals, including Nadeem Mandviwalla,
Abdul Ghani Majeed and Tariq Mehmood. Nadeem Mandviwalla is the brother of the Senate
deputy chairman.
The reference says former PIA MD Aijaz Haroon prepared
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.
National
December 30, 2020
ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau s Executive Board Tuesday approved filing corruption references in the mega fake bank accounts scam against former Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Chairman Ejaz Haroon, Abdul Ghani Majeed of Omni Group and others for their alleged involvement in illegal allotment of plots in Overseas Cooperative Housing Society Limited (Kidney Hills), Karachi, and payment for the plots through fake bank accounts which inflicted heavy losses on the national exchequer.
Rejecting allegations against the NAB, the Executive Board also announced initiating a probe into what it called baseless, misleading, concocted and fabricated propaganda against it to tarnish its image as an institution under Clause 31 (a) of the NAB Ordinance. The meeting was presided over by NAB Chairman Justice (Retd) Javed Iqbal and attended by Prosecutor General Accountability Syed Asghar Haider, Director General Operations Zahir Shah, NAB Rawalpindi