Former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) Tauqir Sadiq, main accused in a multibillion-dollar scandal, is due to return to Pakistan shortly after he voluntarily surrendered himself.
According to media reports, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials said that a special team would leave for Abu Dhabi soon to bring the former Ogra chairman back after completing the legal formalities. The development comes after an Abu Dhabi court ordered deportation of Tauqir Sadiq on June 3.
The contents of a one-page handwritten statement of Sadiq, along with the covering letter of Pakistan’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi reads: “I have given in writing to the jail authorities that I am voluntarily surrendering myself to the authorities of Pakistan and Interpol to go to Pakistan and face the cases. I, therefore, quit my right of appeal.” The statement carried his signature dated June 19, 2013.
Pakistan’s Embassy in Abu Dhabi official Arshad Jan Pathansaid Sadiq’s statement was recorded by Counselor Welfare Affairs Farooq Langove, who is posted in Abu Dhabi.
NAB officials confirmed that they received the statement. Sadiq handed over his statement to Langove during the attaché’s routine visit to the ex-chairman at al Wathba Central Jail in Abu Dhabi.
The statement has been forwarded to officials concerned in the UAE through formal diplomatic channels, sources said.
Why? Is he innocent?
Let the law prevails and vultures like Tauqir Sadik & their supporters (Rehman Malik, Gilani and Rental Raja) be accountable for depriving this nation of billions.
Why? Is he innocent?
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