ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has once again issuedsummons to the former principal secretary to prime minister Fawad HassanFawad and asked him to appear on June 22.
Sources privy to the development stated that anti-graft watchdog hasdecided to quickly conclude the mega scandal of Ashiana-e-Iqbal HousingSociety and then send a reference to the accountability court. The actionwill be taken against Fawad under ordinance 1999 if he failed to appearbefore NAB on the fixed date, they added.
It was told that Fawad was summoned in-connection to Ashiyana-e-Iqbalscandal again as he had failed to answer the question last time. NAB hadpreviously summoned him in the months of February and April.
Moreover, NAB had also received the complete detail of the assets owned byFawad from the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
Fawad is facing allegations in the reference that he being the secretary tothe project director of Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC) at that timehad played a role in the cancellation of a bid to one company to favouranother. The NAB had launched investigations into the case in November 2017.