ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau makes claims big recovery fromfugitive Ishaq Dar.

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore claimed on Thursday that it hadrecovered Rs0.5 billion from former finance minister Ishaq Dar’s bankaccounts and a property as well.

A press release from the bureau quoted Chairman NAB Justice (r) Javed Iqbasaying that Rs0.5 billion had been recovered from Dar’s bank accounts andhanded over to the Punjab Government.[image: an image][image: an image]

The bureau also claimed that it recovered a property in Lahore’s Gulbergarea spread over four kanals belonging to the former finance minister andhanded it over to the Punjab Government as well.

The press release stated that the property would be sold and its proceedswould be handed over to the Punjab Government.

The former finance minister is accused of possessing assetsdisproportionate to his declared sources of income.

A reference against the former finance minister was filed by the NationalAccountability Bureau (NAB) in light of the Supreme Court’s July 28 verdictin the Panama Papers case.

Dar had earlier been declared a proclaimed offender by the accountabilitycourt due to his continuous absence from the proceedings.