ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has accepted petition of former finance minister, Miftah Ismail, seeking protective bail in the in the liquefied petroleum gas (LNG) terminal scandal, ARY News reported.
Ismail is currently being investigated by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the scam.
A two-member bench of the IHC headed by the Chief Justice Athar Minallah will hear the case involving the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leader.
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Ismail has appealed the court to grant him interim bail until final decision on the inquiry pertaining to the LNG case. Miftah insisted in his plea that the accountability watchdog is carrying out alleged baseless inquiry against him as he has nothing to do with the scam.
Earlier, the NAB had requested the interior ministry to put the name of former finance minister Miftah Ismail on the Exit Control List.
In October, 2018, the NAB had reopened investigation into LNG scandal against former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and others.
The file of the case was closed and it was in the back burner at Karachi office of the National Accountability Bureau.
The anti-corruption watchdog is inquiring into a case registered in 2015 against Abbasi for awarding a liquefied natural gas (LNG) import contract which caused a potential $2 billion loss to the national exchequer.
According to NAB documents, the contract for the LNG import and distribution was awarded to the Elengy Terminal in 2013 in violation of the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules and relevant laws.
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