*ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has made seniorofficials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs part of its probe into a caseagainst former prime minister Nawaz Sharif over alleged personal use ofbulletproof vehicles imported for the SAARC summit 2016.*
Sources relayed eight officials of the Foreign Office were subjected toquestioning by a NAB team in the case.
Some of the officials who were interrogated were posted at Pakistan’smissions abroad.
The sources said those questioned by the bureau included Naeem Cheema,Iftikhar Aziz, Sahibzada Ahmed Khan, Salman Sharif, Sardar Adnan Rasheed,Waseem Shehzad and Shujaat Rathore.
They said the anti-corruption watchdog might summon former foreignsecretary Azaz Chaudhry in connection with investigation into the case.
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Previously, a NAB team had recorded the statement of former prime ministerNawaz Sharif in the case inside jail.
According to NAB, 34 bulletproof vehicles were procured from Germany forthe guest of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC)conference. The vehicles were bought without paying import duty, it added.
