LAHORE – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested former chiefminister of Punjab Shehbaz Sharif as his former secretary Fawad Hasan Fawadbecame approver against him in the Ashiana Housing scheme corruptionscandal.
Shahbaz was arrested in the Ashiana Housing Scheme Scandal case.
The NAB sources said Shahbaz was being investigated in the light ofrevelations made by former principal secretary Fawad Hassan who is in NAB’scustody on physical remand, while the other main accused in theAshiana-e-Iqbal Housing scam, Ahad Khan, is on judicial remand.
The Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly was accused ofcorruption in the case.
“The NAB Lahore has arrested former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif inthe Ashiana company case. The bureau will present him before anaccountability court tomorrow for remand,” an official press release of theanti-graft body said.
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Sources claim, Fawad, during the hearing, provided ‘incriminating evidence’against the former chief minister in the corruption case pulling the laterinto a difficult situation.
The NAB had summoned Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) president in the SaafPani Company Scandallink.The anti-graft watchdog claims that the then Punjab government under theleadership of Shehbaz Sharif spent a whopping amount of Rs4 billion on theproject but failed to produce even one drop of clean water.
However, according to the anti-graft body, Shehbaz was arrested in theAshiana Company corruption scandal, not in the Saaf Pani case. He will bepresented in the accountability court tomorrow.
