Ashiana Housing scam: NAB court extends Shehbaz's transit remand till Nov 6
Shehbaz Sharif was produced before the court after his three-day transit remand expired.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Accountability court on Wednesday has extended transit remand of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president and Opposition Leader in the National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif till November 6 to participate in National Assembly session.
Shehbaz Sharif, who was arrested by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on October 5, was produced before the court after his three-day transit remand expired.
During the hearing, Justice Mohammad Bashir approved the request of anti-corruption watchdog to extend former Chief Minister of Punjab’s (CM) remand by seven days.
Earlier, accountability court had extended PML-N president’s physical remand till November 7 and handed him over to NAB to probe Ashiana Housing scandal.
Shehbaz Sharif arrested
PML-N president was arrested on October 5 after appearing before the NAB team in Saaf Paani Company scheme. NAB said Shehbaz failed to satisfy the investigation team regarding a tender awarded to a private consultancy firm and was therefore arrested.
The anti-graft watchdog said the firm did not conduct any kind of survey but nevertheless was provided a lucrative sum of 1.5 billion rupees. It added that Fawad Hassan Fawad, the principal secretary of former premier Nawaz Sharif, had become an approver in the case.
Fawad, in his statement, had claimed that he had awarded a contract to a “favourite firm” in the Rs14 billion Ashiana Housing project at the behest of Shehbaz Sharif.
The anti-graft agency said that the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons but Sharif cancelled it and later on awarded the contract to Lahore Casa Developers - a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by former Railways minister Saad Rafique.
