NAB gets remand of key accused in fake accounts case

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ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Thursday handed over Iqbal Khan Noori, a key suspect in the fake bank accounts case, in the National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) custody on 14-day physical remand for questioning.

NAB officials produced Noori before the accountability judge and sought his physical remand for interrogation. The court remanded the accused in the bureau’s custody for 14 days and adjourned the hearing until May 2.

Meanwhile, the judge granted a plea of the suspect’s family seeking permission to meet him.

Noori, director of M/s Rubicon owned by Younas Kudwai – frontman of PPP Co-Chair Asif Ali Zardari, CEO of M/S Park Lane – is among the 30 accused named in the case.

The accused persons include former president Zardari, his sister Faryal Talpur, his close aides Hussain Lawai, Anwar Majeed, Abdul Ghani Majeed among others.