July 7, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Tuesday said that either run the government or the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) as the country cannot make progress with NAB.
Talking to media after appearing before Accountability Court in LNG reference, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said that NAB was silent on multi-billion dollar scandals. He further said the NAB chief should end false cases against him.
“The case against me is that the LNG was not required and the plant was forcibly installed,” said Abbasi, adding that the LNG supply was suspended for six days due to the incompetence of the government.
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ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry has said the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has so far recovered Rs33 billion in former president Asif Ali Zardari’s fake accounts case and the “actual volume of corruption” in the case is approximately five trillion rupees.
In a tweet on Saturday, the minister said the recovered amount is equivalent to about 200 million dollars. At such a recovery level, he said, “one could imagine the scale of corruption in the country and how the past rulers looted the country and Sindh province”. He added that the actual volume of corruption in the fake accounts case was 5,000 billion rupees.