ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested former water and power secretary Shahid Rafi on Friday in the rental power projects corruption case.
According to NAB sources, Rafi was taken into custody after a raid at his residence in Islamabad; the NAB team also confiscated important documents from his house.
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The former federal secretary was shifted to the NAB Rawalpindi office and is expected to be presented before an accountability court on Saturday for seeking physical remand.
The accountability watchdog is investigating the former bureaucrat for alleged corruption in awarding the contract for a rental power project to a private company.
In February, the NAB Executive Board in a meeting presided over by chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal rejected Rafi’s request to transfer his reference to Islamabad from Quetta.
Sources say Shahid Rafi is also named in 11 references pertaining to the rental power plants and his arrest follows the detention of another accused Laiq Ahmed. Former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf is also facing charges of corruption in the same case.
