NAB continues investigating Nawaz's use of bulletproof vehicles

Nawaz accused of using govt vehicles in his personal motorcade

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday continued to investigate former prime minister Nawaz Sharif's use of government-issued bulletproof cars.

According to Express News, a four-member NAB team reached Kot Lakhpat prison to question Nawaz for allegedly importing and illegally using 33 bulletproof vehicles from Germany.

NAB sources claimed that, on paper, the vehicles were imported to accommodate guests attending the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) Conference in 2016.

However, after the conference, 20 of the 33 vehicles were allegedly added to Nawaz's personal motorcade while the rest were given to his daughter and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader Maryam Nawaz.

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NAB's Additional Director Hammad Hussain Niazi and Investigation Deputy Director Abdul Majid were also part of the team that arrived at the prison.

On May 21, an accountability court judge Muhammad Arshad in Islamabad allowed NAB to interrogate Nawaz about the alleged misuse of the 20 bulletproof vehicles.

The graft-buster has already interrogated PML-N leader and former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former principal secretary to the prime minister Fawad Hasan Fawad and former foreign secretary Aizaz Chaudhry in connection with the case.

According to NAB, the former foreign secretary approved the summary to import the bulletproof vehicles from Germany.