ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) recovered a plot worth Rs 600 million in the high-profile fake bank accounts case on Wednesday.
Media reports citing well-placed sources say Director M/s Parthenon Younus Kudwavi handed over the land and permitted NAB in written to take over the property besides surrendering the relevant documents.
The development comes as the accountability watchdog filed the first interim reference in the case, nominating eight senior government officials and Kudwavi.
The anti-graft body’s prosecutors submitted the reference to an accountability court in Islamabad, contending that the accused persons be tried in the court for buying properties in Karachi through the fake accounts under question.
The accused in the reference include the former administrator of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC), Mohammad Hussain Syed, former metropolitan commissioners of KMC: Matanat Ali Khan and Samiuddin Siddique.
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Others nominated in the reference include Additional Director KDA Wing KMC, Syed Khalid Zafar Hashmi, former director KDA Wing KMC Najamuz Zaman and assistant directors of KDA Wing KMC, Abdul Rasheed and Abdul Ghani.
The fake bank accounts cum money-laundering probe started last year when then chief justice Saqib Nisar ordered the formation of a Joint Investigation Team for a thorough investigation. The case was brought to light in 2015, however, high-profile arrests were made on the directives of the former top judge.
The case involves alleged money laundering worth billions of rupees through 29 accounts, which were found opened in three banks — Summit Bank, Sindh Bank and United Bank Ltd.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had named former president Asif Ali Zardari, his sibling Faryal Talpur, Omni Group chairman Anwar Majeed, his sons and over 10 others as suspects in an interim charge sheet filed in a banking court in August last year.
The case was transferred from the banking court in Karachi to the accountability court of Rawalpindi for trial against which the PPP leaders moved Sindh High Court, however, the court dismissed the plea.
