LAHORW – *Rangers personnel have been deployed at the NAB Lahore office.*
According to official sources, the deployment of the paramilitary troopswas made to ensure safety and security of the NAB Lahore office andemployees.
Security has been beefed up at the request of NAB chairman and directorgeneral.
A day earlier, the Punjab bureaucracy staged a protest against the arrestof Ahad Cheema, former director general of Lahore Development Authority(LDA).
Cheema has been arrested over his alleged involvement in the AshiyanaHousing Society scam.
NAB officials claim that they have gathered evidence sufficient to proveCheema’s involvement in the scam.
On Thursday, the former LDA officer was remanded in NAB custody by anaccountability court of Lahore for eleven days for questioning.
According to NAB, Ahad Cheema through misuse of authority with criminalintent processed and awarded contract of Rs14 billion Ashiana-e-Iqbalproject to Lahore CASA Developers in violation of the relevant laws.
The accused received illegal gratification in the form of 32 kanals of landworth Rs30.090 million from the owners of Paragon City (Pvt) Ltd.