ISLAMABAD – Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser Thursday issued production orders of member National
Assembly Khawaja Saad Rafique, according to National Assembly Secretariat.
The production orders were issued for the ongoing session of the National Assembly. The production orders were issued under the rule 108 of the Rules, Procedure, and Conduct of the Business of National Assembly, 2007.
On December 11, 2018, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Khawaja Saad Rafique and his brother Khawaja Salman Rafique after their bail pleas were rejected by the Lahore High Court (LHC).
Both of them were facing NAB inquiry in Paragon Housing Society scam.
The NAB started the investigation in November 2017, into a mega land scam involving Khwaja Saad Rafique’s Paragon Housing Society in Lahore and the Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC).
The bureau had sought records from the PLDC regarding its project Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme in Lahore, for which a contract agreement was signed between the land authority and Anhui Construction Engineering Group, owned by Director Paragon Exchange Ali Sajjad, Bismillah Engineering Company, owned by the chief executive of Paragon City Nadeem Zia and Sparco Group.
The corruption watchdog had arrested Muneer Zia and Umar Zia, brothers of Paragon city Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Nadeem Zia. However, Nadeem Zia is still at large and most probably has fled the country.
On November 27, a judicial magistrate of district courts recorded the statement of Qaiser Amin Butt, an accused in the scam under 164 CrPC.
It has learnt that the judge recorded the statement of Qaiser Amin in person. As per court sources, Qaiser in his statement said that he started his property business in 1998. He claimed that in 2002, Khawaja Saad Rafique introduced him with Nadeem Zia. He said that in 2006, he started a business with Nadeem Zia on 50 percent partnership but now Nadeem Zia is an owner of 92 percent of the business.
