LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday granted 14-day physical remand of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad for questioning over the charges of corruption and power abuse.
NAB officials produced the senior bureaucrat before the court and requested it to grant his 14-day physical remand for interrogation.
The accountability judge allowed their plea and handed over the custody of Fawad to them with direction to produce him in court on expiry of his remand with a progress report.
The NAB had taken Fawad into custody on Thursday in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme scandal.
The anti-corruption burea tightened noose around one of the country’s senior-most bureaucrats as the Director General (DG) NAB informed that Fawad Hassan Fawad has been arrested in three graft cases and the officials of NAB questioning him.
Three corruption cases against former premier Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary involved Ashiana Housing Scheme, illegal employment in a private bank and unlawful transfer of nine CNG stations.
NAB summoned the top civil servant 11 times in Ashiana Housing case so far; it was the fourth time that Fawad appeared before the anti-corruption bureau.
Fawad has served as the principal secretary of two former prime ministers, Nawaz Sharif and Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during the recent PML-N government.
It is pertinent to mention here that former director general Land Development Authority (LDA) Ahad Cheema is also accused in Ashiana Housing Scheme case.
An Accountability court (AC) on Wednesday extended the judicial remand of Ahad Cheema and other five suspects in the Ashiana Housing Scheme scandal till July 13.
