NAB arrests four more in Ashiana housing scam

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LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore, in a late Friday night development, arrested four more accused persons in its ongoing probe into Ashiana Housing scam, The News has learnt. According to NAB officials, among those arrested on Friday included the incumbent Lahore Development Authority (LDA) Chief Engineer Israr Saeed, incumbent Punjab Land Development Company (PLDC) Chief Engineer Col (retd) Arif, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) PLDC Imtiaz Haider and Bilal Qudwani, another PLDC official. The NAB officials further said that all the accused had already been summoned in the ongoing probe into Ashiana Housing scam for recording of their statements. They said none of them could justify their alleged role in the award of the contract of Ashiana-e-Iqbal project to M/s Lahore Casa Developers, which is a proxy group of M/s Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, according to NAB. ?We had summoned all the four accused for Friday and they were questioned for several hours. After they failed to clarify the charges levelled against them, they were formally arrested,? the NAB officials said, adding that the arrested accused would be produced before the accountability court on Saturday (today) to get their physical remand for further probe. Earlier, NAB had arrested former director general Lahore Development Authority Ahad Khan Cheema to probe his alleged involvement in Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Society scam. He is in the NAB custody for the last couple of weeks.

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