Fake accounts case: Accountant of Park Lane Estates sent on physical remand
Last updated on: 25 April,2019 03:39 pm
The NAB Rawalpindi had also formed a combined investiga-tion team (CIT) to probe the case.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – An accountability court in Islamabad on Thursday granted the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) a seven-day physical remand of Mohammad Hanif, the accountant of Park Lane Estates, the firm owned by former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari.
Yesterday, the NAB Rawalpindi arrested Hanif in an ongoing investigation related to the fake bank accounts case against the leadership of the PPP.
The bureau has claimed that he was an accountant of the Park Lane Estate and also a secretary in Parthenon, a front company of Park Lane.
He was allegedly involved in misappropriation of bank loans obtained by Parthenon and used benami bank accounts for the transactions of Park Lane Estate Company and Parthenon.
He also used fake pay orders and bank drafts for the transactions of the companies believed to be owned by Zardari.
On April 10, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) extended the pre-arrest bail of former president Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur till April 29 in the same case.
On March 28, the court had granted pre-arrest bail to Zardari and Talpur till April 10 against surety bonds of Rs1 million each.
The case against PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur, former Sindh chief minister Qaim Ali Shah, incumbent provincial minister Anwar Siyal, Bahria Town owner Malik Riaz and others had been shifted from Karachi to NAB’s Rawalpindi office.
Their names had been placed on the Exit Control List (ECL). However, the names of Bilawal and Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah were later removed from the ECL on the directive of the Supreme Court.
The NAB Rawalpindi had also formed a combined investiga-tion team (CIT) to probe the case.
The apex court had in a recent judgement directed the anti-graft watchdog to file references against the accused in the accountability court of Rawalpindi/Islamabad, and not at Karachi.