The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi recovered over Rs23 billion through plea bargain in fake account and illegal allotment of land cases besides sentencing of 18 accused and their disqualification for 10 years under the plea bargain laws.
According to the progress report issued on Tuesday regarding the fake account and illegal allotment of land cases, some 10 references were filed by the graft buster, while 52 suspects, including former president Asif Zardari, Faryal Talpur, Omni Group, Bilal Shaikh, Hussain Lawai had been arrested.
The arrest warrants for 64 accused in the fake accounts cases were issued of which 12 suspects had already been declared proclaimed offenders. As many as 12 cases were at the investigation stage and inquiries of 21 cases were continuing, while names of 186 were put on the Exit Control List.
The progress report said that former president Zardari was nominated in four cases, while former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was nominated in one case. Former prime minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and Zardari’s sister, Faryal Talpur, were nominated in one case each.
The progress report said that Anwar Majeed of the Omni Group was nominated in nine cases. It added that more references would be filed as the NAB continues receiving documents from different departments and accused being turning as approvers in various cases.
NAB is also determined to produce the accused in the accountability courts right from hospitals to repatriate them from abroad.
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