ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Wednesday directly indicted former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in Reshma Power Generation Private Limited and Gulf Rental Power Private Limited scandals.
The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader appeared before the court during which a charged sheet was handed over to him. The accused denied all the allegations.
The court summoned the ex-PM in the next hearing and adjourned the proceedings till August 7.
Earlier on June 3, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court had indicted Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other accused persons in the Rental Power Plants (RPPs) scam.
The court had framed charges against Ashraf on three RPPs, including Reshma Power Generation Private Limited, Gulf Rental Power Private Limited and Young Gen Power Limited.
The RPPs case is about private power companies that faced allegations of receiving more than Rs22 billion mobilisation advance from the government to commission the projects, but failed to set up the plants.
A few of them had set up the plants, but only after an inordinate delay.
The ex-PM is accused of misusing his authority during his tenure as power minister for approval of the increasing the down payment to the rental power companies from 7 to 14 percent, amounting to about Rs22 billion.
