Ex-Ogra chief Tauqir Sadiq shifted to Rawalpindi
Tauqir Sadiq who is accused of being involved in a multi-billion rupee scam.
RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) - Former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq, the prime accused in a multibillion-dollar scam, has been shifted to Rawalpindi.
He is likely to be presented in accountability court today (Tuesday).
Earlier‚ a NAB team brought Tauqir Sadiq back to Pakistan on a private airliner and he was shifted to a house in Islamabad soon after landing at Islamabad’s Benazir International Airport. The development came after an Abu Dhabi court ordered deportation of Tauqir Sadiq on June 3.
Sadiq is suspected of causing a loss of Rs 83 billion to the national exchequer when he was head of Pakistan's oil and gas regulatory authority between 2009 and 2011, at around the same time that Mr Ashraf was water and power minister.
He fled abroad after the Supreme Court declared his appointment illegal on Nov 25, 2011, and ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to start an investigation against him.
In the Ogra corruption scam, two former prime ministers Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf are also being investigated with regard to the controversial appointment of Tauqeer Sadiq as chairman Ogra.
