LAHORE – Former Railways Minister Khawaja Saad Rafique used his wifeGhazala Saad Rafique to pursue his illegal business in Lahore, NAB sourceshave revealed.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has seeked key evidence againstthe Khawaja brothers in the assets beyond income case.
After getting documents from the LDA and Excise and Tax Department, the NABhas decided to include Kh Saad Rafique’s wife Ghazala Saad in theinvestigations.
The NAB has received the record of bank transactions made by the Khawajabrothers after 1985.
The NAB had initiated another probe against former railways minister KhwajaSaad Rafique and his brother former Punjab health minister Khwaja SalmanRafique for possessing assets beyond their known sources of income.
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The Khwaja brothers are already in the NAB Lahore custody in connectionwith the Paragon City Housing Society scam on physical remand.
The NAB claimed that Saad, through his benamidar wife Ghazala, and brotherSalman in association with Qaiser Amin Butt and Nadeem Zia had establisheda housing project in the name of Air Avenue that was converted into a newproject, namely M/s Paragon City Pvt Ltd.
According to the NAB, record shows that Paragon City is an illegal society.The suspect in collaboration with Zia and Butt cheated the members ofpublic at large and obtained illegal pecuniary benefits from the funds ofsaid illegal housing project.
