Paragon Housing scam: Saad Rafique sent to jail on 14-day judicial remand
Last updated on: 02 February,2019 03:24 pm
NAB officials produced the Khwaja brothers before the court for extension in their physical remand.
LAHORE (Dunya News) – An accountability court on Saturday sent Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leader and Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Khwaja Saad Rafique and his brother Salman Rafique to jail on a 14-day judicial remand after rejecting the National Accountability Bureau s (NAB) request for another extension in their physical remand in the Paragon Housing Society scam.
Accountability judge Syed Najmul Hasan presided over the hearing of the case in which the Khwaja brothers have been accused of embezzling nearly Rs2 billion.
Earlier, their remand was extended till Feb 2.
Meanwhile, a heavy contingent of police was deployed around the court to prevent party workers from disrupting law and order situation.
In previous hearing, the Khwaja brothers’ counsel for the defence told the court that details of transactions of the last ten years had been handed over to the NAB.
However, the prosecutor had informed the court that according to records of the Paragon Housing Society an amount of Rs2 billion was transferred to sons of Salman Rafique and Nadim Zia, and 20 plots were owned by the Khwaja brothers.
On December 11, 2018, they were detained by the accountability watchdog after the Lahore High Court (LHC) rejected their bail plea.
The NAB had launched an investigation into the alleged scam in November last year after a number of victims staged protests and held a press conference at the Lahore Press Club against what they termed the housing society’s fraud.