Ongoing investigation: Remand of SSGC officials in NAB custody extended
The investigating officer submitted before the accountability courts
KARACHI:
An accountability court extended on Wednesday the physical remand of two former senior officials of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on charges of corruption till January 29.
NAB had arrested the gas utility’s former managing director, Zuhair Siddiqui, and deputy managing director Shoaib Warsi in November last year for misusing their authority while granting LPG projects, illegally approving industrial, commercial and power generation gas connections and extending illegal consultancy to a private hospital from 2009 to 2013.
The investigating officer submitted before the accountability courts’ administrative judge Saad Qureshi that investigations were nearly completed and only a few aspects were left to be probed.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2016.
An accountability court extended on Wednesday the physical remand of two former senior officials of the Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on charges of corruption till January 29.
NAB had arrested the gas utility’s former managing director, Zuhair Siddiqui, and deputy managing director Shoaib Warsi in November last year for misusing their authority while granting LPG projects, illegally approving industrial, commercial and power generation gas connections and extending illegal consultancy to a private hospital from 2009 to 2013.
The investigating officer submitted before the accountability courts’ administrative judge Saad Qureshi that investigations were nearly completed and only a few aspects were left to be probed.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2016.