The Accountability Court (AC) Saturday remanded key culprit of Defense Housing Authority (DHA) Hammad Arshad in National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s custody for another two days.
The NAB maintained in the court that Arshad is accused of Rs 160 million corruption. The bureau representative added that Arshad deprived martyrs’ families and locals of their right. The court was requested to extend culprit’s physical remand for further investigation. Arshad’s counsel Azam Nazeer argued against NAB’s request.
According to NAB spokesperson, Arshad was supposed to launch development project on 25,000 kanals land in spirit of an agreement with DHA. The official said that the accused did not respect the agreement and acquired only 13,000 kanals. Funds for the rest of pieces of the land were transferred to Arshad’s personal account, he added. Sources privy to the investigators said that names of all the accused in the DHA land scandal have been included in the Exit Control List (ECL) while their assets have been frozen.
