PPP minister's family to be indicted in corruption case

Agha Siraj Durrani's wife and children appear before court in Karachi

KARACHI: An accountability court provided on Monday the copies of a reference pertaining to assets beyond means against Sindh Assembly speaker Agha Siraj Durrani to his wife, daughters and son, who are to be indicted at the next hearing.

Durrani's wife Naheed Khan, daughters Sanam and Sonia, and son Agha Shahbaz were nominated in the reference and appeared in court during the hearing.

Housing society fraud

The court accepted a corruption reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), pertaining to fraud in the name of the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Staff Cooperative Housing Society.

NAB maintained that the housing society had been registered in 1992 but no legal documentation for it had been done, further stating that the registration had been done without an NOC from the SBP.

The anti-graft watchdog accuses district operative officer Younis Baloch of issuing a false statement claiming that the SBP had issued the NOC, while also alleging that officials conspired to forge documents, causing a loss of at least one billion rupees to the national exchequer. 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 10^th, 2020.