*An accountability court on Wednesday extended the remand of PakistanMuslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif by 20 days.*
As per details, the PML-N leader was presented before the court in Lahoretoday at the expiry of his 14-day remand.
During the proceedings, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’e legalrepresentative told the court the Asif had transferred money into a companyaccount which was owned by his servant.
In replay, Asif’s advocate responded that all the money being mentioned bythe bureau has been officially declared.
The anti-corruption watchdog also told the court that they had made a“major breakthrough” in Khawaja Asif’s case during the interrogation.
NBA’s prosecutor-general said that the PML-N leader had been taking aregular income from [employment in] Dubai but did not provide a bankstatement.
He added that the PML-N leader had accepted that he was withdrawing asalary but could not provide any supporting evidence for the claim.
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After hearing the argument from both sides, the judge extended the Asif’sremand for another 10 days and asked the bureau to present him again onJanuary 22.
This is the second time that the PML-N leader has been sent on remand bythe accountability court.
The PML-N leader was arrested last month by NAB in an assets beyond meanscase.
NAB had said that Asif was taken into custody in the backdrop of an ongoinginvestigation into allegations of him possessing assets beyond knownsources of income.
