ISLAMABAD – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Sunday vehementlyrepudiated a malicious propaganda campaign being carried out in a sectionof media to malign the anti-graft watchdog by casting lopsided aspersionsover NAB.
A spokesman of NAB said in a statement that NAB would not bow down underany propaganda campaign whatsoever about its transparent, fair andmeritocratic workings.
The context used in some of the said media reports are premised ondeliberate conjecturing and assumptions based on cherry picked surmiseswhich are far from true facts aimed only to bring disrepute and discreditNAB.
He urged the media to avoid airing/publishing concocted, baseless, false,and incorrect stories about the working of NAB without seeking the officialviewpoint of the bureau.
Clarifying media reports about Land of Kidney Hill area in Karachi, he saidthe land was reserved for development of Public Park, which was proposed byKarachi Development Authority (KDA) in 1966.
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In 1973, Overseas Housing Society managed allotment of Kidney Hill landfrom Karachi Cooperative Housing Societies Union and also got approval ofthe Layout Plan from the Ministry of Housing and Works which was suspendedin 1979 and subsequently cancelled in 1984.
The status of Kidney Hill land is determined as Amenity land by SupremeCourt of Pakistan vides judgment dated August 06,2019 in CMA No. 592-K/2018.
M Aijaz Haroon made backdated illegal and unlawful allotment of 12 plots ofOverseas Society in the name of various builders and subsequently managedtheir ownership through open transfer letters.
Later on, Saleem Mandviwalla and Aijaz Haroon, knowingly and willingly,entered into a property deal with Abdul Ghani Majeed of Omni Group andreceived Rs 144 million approximately from fake bank accounts namely A-OneInternational and Lucky International. M Aijaz Haroon and Saleem Mandiwallashared crime proceeds of Rs 80 million and Rs 64.5 million respectively.Out of said shady deal, Saleem Mandviwalla retained a substantial amount ofdeal which is highly unusual rather next to impossible in any bonafideproperty deal. The retention of huge amounts and utilization of crimeproceeds outweigh his contention of being a bonafide facilitator / brokerof deal and illustrate his complicity in property deal.
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Even otherwise, as a general principle, a real estate agent or coordinatoris expected to be an expert (skillful, knowledgeable and experienced) as tofacts that are basic to any property transaction. Because a real estatecoordinator gathers, prepares, analyzes, and determines the value ofproperty. He is held to a professional standard of care and diligence.
In any property transaction, the dealer in the very first instancethoroughly familiarizes himself with genuineness of title and that ofproperty is free from any sort of encumbrances. The accused deliberatelychose not to probe the substantive questions so that he could denyknowledge.
Saleem Mandivwalla has utilized his brother’s company Mandviwalla Buildersand Developers and its bank account in the said transaction to camouflagethe transaction as business transaction.
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He is beneficiary of the said deal as he has utilized the crime proceedsfor his personal benefits. Initially he purchased plot No. 30/55-A inOverseas Cooperative Housing Society (OCHS) Block 7 & 8 in the name of hisemployee Abudl Qadir Shiwani and also settled his personal loan with TrustDawat e Haddayah Karachi.
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Total Share of Saleem Mandviwalla from Crime Proceeds Rs 64.2 millionDirect deposit of open cheques of fake accounts in the A/C TitledMandviwalla Builders and Developers, Rs 20 million were transferred toAhsan, plot seller, through pay orders, requested by Saleem Mandviwallaunder his own signatures, Rs 29.6 million Direct Payment through fakeaccount cheques to Ahsan for purchase of Leasehold Plot. No. 30/55-A, inBlock 7 & 8, Overseas Cooperative Housing Society Karachi, Rs 30 millionpayment of last installment of loan to Dawat-e-Haddayat, Karachi Rs 4.6million No person materially relevant to the deal has declared therespective amount in their tax record before FBR.
However after cognizance and revelation of matter by Joint InvestigationTeam (JIT) as well as NAB, Aijaz Haroon tried to guise the actualities byrevising his tax returns whereby alleged amounts remitted to SaleemMandviwalla were given the color of loan. Such disclosure is nothing but anafterthought to cover up their complicity as the tax declarations made bySaleem Mandviwalla does not make any such disclosure till date.
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Saleem Mandviwalla, after a period of 6 to 8 month, sold the propertywhich was purchased by using crime proceeds in the name of Qadir Shiwani.Its proceeds were again routed in the company account of MandviwallaBuilders and Developers of which Saleem Mandviwalla held the mandate tooperate since 2013. The same account containing proceeds of alleged crimewas again used by Saleem Mandviwalla in purchase of 3 million shares ofMangla View Resort valuing around Rs 31 million approximately in the nameof his employee Tariq Mehmood. The same shares have been frozen by therespected Accountability Court Islamabad on November 24,2020. All thepayments were made by Saleem Mandviwalla under his own signatures. TariqMehmood is an employee of Saleem Mandviwalla having no financial worth.Apparently, he has been surfaced as benamidar of the Saleem Mandviwalla.
Saleem Mandviwalla was issued a call up notice to appear before CIT onOctober 18,2019 to justify the retention as well as utilization of crimeproceeds by himself by serving a questionnaire.
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He replied to the questionnaire after a lapse of around 5 months whichlacks any explanation/justification.
Subsequently, he was again issued call-up notice dated June 25,2020 for hisjustification pertaining to utilization of crime proceeds. Instead ofcooperation during the investigation, the accused Saleem Mandviwallaresorted to conceal himself behind the business community. Bearing in mindthe facts / circumstances of the case referred to above and the documentaryevidence, as confirmed again, by the testimony of witnesses overwhelminglylead only to the irresistible conclusion that Saleem Mandviwalla isrecipient of a substantial sum of allegedly crime proceeds which he hasused for his own personal benefits.
Previously, in August 2020, Saleem Mandviwalla had written a letter to theNAB Chairman which was processed and accordingly NAB responded with a videletter dated September 22,2020.
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