The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore arrested six suspects, including of primary accused Farhan Cheema, in the Model Housing Enclave scandal on Saturday.
Other suspects had been diagnosed as Chauhan Estate owners Rashid Bashir and Agha Shahid, Al-Huda Estate owner Rizwan Fareed, Al-Amin Estate proprietor Sajid Amin, and Arham Estate proprietor Saleem Ishtiaq.
Primary suspect Farhan Cheemawaso was arrested by NAB in October 2017. He was launched via the court after a good plea bargain of Rs620 million.
Later, others came forward to stake a claim in the said case. NAB had informed Cheema about the brand new claimants and asked him to deal with their grievances. However, Cheema maintained that the opposite, the accused, the asset sellers, had been dealing with these issues. NAB began investigating the matter similarly. The arrested people have been supplied earlier than the court, which remanded them into bodily custody for 12 days. The court docket asked NAB to offer them on March 28.
Meanwhile, an accountability court adjourned the listening to of the Ramazan Sugar Mills and Ashiana Housing Scheme cases until March 27.
The leader of the competition in the National Assembly, Shehbaz Sharif, the competition leader in the Punjab Assembly, Hamza Shehbaz, former LDA DG Ahad Khan Cheem, and different suspects were nominated within the cases.
Strict security arrangements were made for the listening. Police blocked the road to the courthouse with the use of containers, barricades, and barbed wire.
An obligation chosen, in the absence of an accountability court judge, Syed Najamul Hassan, resumed the hearing. The accused people pleaded not guilty before the court, mentioning that NAB had falsely implicated them in those cases.
The decision stated they might explicit their reservations at a suitable time and adjourned the case.
Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing scheme was a plan initiated by way of the Punjab government under the then Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif to build homes under a public-private partnership. The homes could be provided to the general public at subsidized rates.
The venture couldn’t be initiated, notwithstanding the passage of a few years. NAB accused Shahbaz Sharif, Ahad Khan Cheema, and former principal secretary to the high minister, Fawad Hassan Fawad, of corruption worth billions of rupees. According to NAB, the accused misused their authority had granted the agreement of the undertaking to a firm that is now not eligible. The step was taken after canceling the contract of the successful bidder.
As a long way as the Ramazan Sugar Mill scandal became involved, Shehbaz, Hamza, and others were accused of constructing a drain for the factory by way of the use of public money
