Land scam: Two suspects remanded to NAB custody

KARACHI:

An accountability court remanded on Tuesday two suspects to National Accountability Bureau's custody for their alleged involvement in preparation of fake documents for the purpose of land grabbing.

NAB presented the two suspects, Faisal Masroor and Mujibullah Siddiqui, before the court after obtaining their custody from the police. The suspects were arrested in late June by the Rangers on their alleged involvement in the land scam in the city.

Subsequently, they were taken into a 90-day preventive detention. Later, they were handed over to the police and a case of  ‘china-cutting’ and terror-financing was registered against them.  The suspects caused losses to the national exchequer with their fraudulent schemes, said the officials. They presented themselves as officers of the Karachi Development Authority, the bureau added.  The court sent the suspects to NAB custody and on a two-week physical remand for questioning.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 16^th,  2015.