Ogra case: Tauqir Sadiq handed over to NAB on 14-day remand
Former Ogra chairman was produced before accountability court amid tight security.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - Accountability court in Rawalpindi on Tuesday handed over main accused of Ogra corruption scam Tauqir Sadiq to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on 14-day remand.
During case proceeding, Tauqir Sadiq denied corruption allegations, saying that National Accountability Bureau s investigation team has tortured him.
"Investigation team is pressurising me to confess to the crime," Tauqir Sadiq told court.
However, NAB officials refuted Sadiq s accusations and pleaded the court for 17-day remand of the accused but the court approved 14-day remand.
Earlier today, NAB team brought Tauqir Sadiq back to Pakistan on a private airliner and he was shifted to Rawalpindi 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 82 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.
