An accountability court on Friday allowed the National Accountability Bureau (NBA) to keep former Karachi Development Authority (KDA) director general Nasir Abbas in its custody on seven-day physical remand in the case pertaining to illegal allotment of land.
Abbas was initially arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) on the charges of holding two passports followed by his custody in money-laundering case.
The NAB presented the accused before the judge and requested for grant of his remand, maintaining that his custody was required for interrogation. On the other hand, Abbas’ counsel opposed the NAB request and told the judge that there were not sufficient evidences against him. Abbas, himself intervened and said that he would be murdered. He requested the court to send him to jail instead of remanding into NAB’s custody.
While granting KDA’s chief physical remand for one week, the court directed the NAB’s prosecutor to submit the progress report in the next hearing.
It was pertinent to mention here that Abbas was initially arrested for holding two passports. According to FIA, he got one passport in 1995 whereas another was issued in 2015. He had declared himself as businessman instead of government employee in his passport and travelled abroad on both the passports.