Former Ogra chief Tauqir Sadiq. PHOTO: FILE.
Former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqir Sadiq – the principal accused in a multibillion-dollar scandal – is expected to return to Pakistan shortly after he voluntarily surrendered himself, documents available with The Express Tribune revealed.
National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials said that a special team will leave for Abu Dhabi soon to bring the former Ogra chairman back after completing the legal formalities. The development comes after an Abu Dhabi court ordered deportation of Tauqir Sadiq on June 3.
The contents of a one-page handwritten statement of Sadiq, along with the covering letter of Pakistan’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi reads: “I have given in writing to the jail authorities that I am voluntarily surrendering myself to the authorities of Pakistan and Interpol to go to Pakistan and face the cases. I, therefore, quit my right of appeal,” read the statement with the signature of Sadiq dated June 19, 2013.
The embassy, through a letter issued with the stamp and signature of Arshad Jan Pathan, Consular at Pakistan’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi, said Sadiq’s statement has been recorded by Counselor Welfare Affairs Farooq Langove, who is posted in Abu Dhabi.
NAB officials confirmed to The Express Tribune that they received the statement. Sadiq handed over his statement to Langove during the attaché’s routine visit to the ex-chairman at al Wathba Central Jail in Abu Dhabi.
The statement has been forwarded to officials concerned in the UAE through formal diplomatic channels, sources said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 20th, 2013.
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Voluntarily :-P....(voluntarily should have been when he should have returned back himself)
the whole world knows that Pakistan ambassador to UAE, President of the Nation and Former interior minister are behind him. How a man travelled from Pakistan, how the visa being issued, how the passport cleared from immigration. Ex-ministry officials, Nadra team, Passport cell, Airport security and all responsible must be bring to court alongwith ambassador and former interior minister. Yes we all know the President has the immunity.
Hummm............
He must have taken assurances from the POWER THAT BE only then he has surrendered .someone has made a LOTS & LOTS of MONEY
With our accountability system having next to zero credibility as far a high profile persons are concerned, I doubt he would be punished at best he will negotiate a settlement in which the country will get peanuts and all else will get fat.
Let justice be done.Recover all looted money from him. Ask him who got the money and in which accounts it went
Hats off to Abu Dhabi court! Its now responsibility of the Pakistani court and authorities to bring him to justice and recover the billions he robbed from the Nation!
"The development comes after an Abu Dhabi court ordered deportation of Tauqir Sadiq on June 3."
So this voluntary surrender is just bowing to the inevitable and is quite pointless. I guess his defence has started already. 'The man gave himself up voluntarily, how can he be guilty?'
@SK: What is exemplary punishment?? He should be given over to Sodomites and they will make him a new person.
All Saqiq's friends must be quite excited by his return. They will be throwing parties for him soon. He is the richest guy, loaded with billions. Maandi will be quite active.
hahahaaa voluntary surrender my foot, he is the coward who preferred to hide as a bakery manager in Abu Dhabi to protect his and his masters' crimes, now that there is no legal lacunas left and no Pak govt officials left to protect him, he surrenders- he should be brought and given exemplary punishment
Isn't he going to get Protective Bail from one of the courts, so that he is not arrested upon arrival at the airport??? That's the norm even if one has committed murder or treason. Sadiq hasn't committed either of the two serious offenses. I am sure his loved ones would want to see him safely home.