Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain.
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Investigation officers questioned them about their assets. They also submitted the pro forma provided by the investigation team on November 6. Earlier, the leaders had failed to submit the 50-pages pro forma to the team. An investigation officer of NAB said the team would now analyse all the details of the assets comparatively.
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Earlier, on November 17, NAB, Lahore had sought details of accounts and properties of the Chaudhry cousins from different departments. NAB investigators had written letters to different banks, commissioners, deputy commissioners of different districts of Punjab, Lahore Development Authority and other departments to seek details of accounts and properties in the case. The two cousins were being probed for possessing properties beyond their known sources of income. On November 6, the Chaudhry cousins had appeared before the NAB investigation team in at least 170 cases opened against them during the Musharaf regime. Later, the cases were closed, but again reopened.
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On November 6, it was their first appearance before the court after reopening of the cases. On that date, they were interviewed for over 90 minutes and were also handed a pro forma, seeking details about their properties.
The investigation team of NAB Lahore would now look into the details gathered by interviews of Q-league leaders, pro formas submitted by them and the details collected from different departments, said the official.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 16th, 2017.
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