Anti-graft watchdog summons Sharif in reference related to Raiwind Road construction. PHOTO: AFP
The anti-graft watchdog had summoned him to record his statement in the Saaf Pani Company scam. An investigator told The Express Tribune that NAB officials waited for him but Ali did not show up till the end of official time.
The decision to summon him again or any other legal action would be decided in the next meeting, he added.
The investigator further said that Ali was also found involved in a scam in the Punjab Power Development Company.
During the course of investigations, the anti-corruption agency had arrested an accused, Ikram Naveed, on April 13 for embezzlement of millions of rupees. He was presented before the court the very next day. The court handed Naveed over to NAB on physical remand.
Sharif’s children, son-in-law: NAB team delivers arrest warrants at Jati Umra
After interrogating Naveed, the anti-graft agency came to know that Imran Ali had few evidences regarding the scam. Subsequently, NAB summoned Ali to record statement.
Raiwind Road construction
In another case regarding construction of Raiwind Road from Ada Plot to Jati Umra in in which Mian Nawaz Sharif is accused of misusing authority as former prime minister, a NAB team delivered a summons notice for April 21 at his residence in Jati Umra, Raiwind.
The notice was received by officials on a check-post outside the Sharif’s residence.
Saad seeks time
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Khawaja Saad Rafique has sought more time for submitting money trail before NAB.
He submitted an incomplete pro forma to NAB after his appearance before an investigation team in the Paragon Housing Society scam.
The federal minister requested NAB to give him time of one more week to submit the complete details of money trail of his assets.
Ali Siddiqui summoned
In another high-profile case, NAB summoned Ali Jahangir Siddiqui, Pakistan's Ambassador-designate to the US.
Two more witnesses testify in NAB reference hearing against Sharif family
NAB asked him to appear before an investigation team on April 17 at 10am at the bureau’s Thokar Niaz Beg complex.
On March 22, Siddiqui had appeared before a NAB investigation team that had questioned him for an hour. He was also handed over a questionnaire to fill in and submit to NAB.
Siddique is accused of “siphoning off funds amounting to €23.758 million [Euros] in 2008 for the purchase of an Italian company, Monte Bello SRL, using a foreign company, Fairytal SRL Sweden, which resulted in a loss to the company and shareholders.”
He is also accused of selling shares of Agritech Ltd to different financial and government institutions by Azgard Nine at a higher price than the market rates to settle the loan defaults of the company, which resulted in an approximate loss of Rs40 billion to the institutions.
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