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SHC rejects bail of SSGC ex-deputy managing director

Shoaib Warsi is in NAB custody and being questioned in cases related to illegal gas connections and corruption

Naeem Sahoutra February 18, 2016

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday rejected a bail petition seeking release of Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC)’s former deputy managing director Shoaib Warsi in cases related to illegal gas connections and corruption.

A SHC bench headed by Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto rejected the bail petition of the gas utility company’s ex-deputy managing director who is currently under custody of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).

Ongoing investigation: Remand of SSGC officials in NAB custody extended

NAB had rounded up SSGC’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.

Last month, an accountability court had extended their physical remand in NAB’s custody on charges of corruption. The investigating officer had submitted before the accountability courts’ administrative judge that investigations were nearly completed and only a few aspects were left to be probed.

COMMENTS (1)

Salman Shah | 8 years ago | Reply Current MD, SSGC, KHALID RAHMAN, should also be arrested, as he has been involved in multi-million Rupee fraud, during his time as MD, Pakistan Petroleum Limited. In a nutshell, in July 2010, he and few of his associates, acquired office land totaling 35,000 sq feet for PPL, through AKD's Real Estate Company, costing Rs 175,000, per sq feet, whereas the actual government rate of said land was estimated to be around Rs 34,000, per sq feet. In total, according to NBA's initial investigation, a sum of Rs 500 million was embezzled thought this, so-called "PPL Land-scam case".

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