LAHORE: An accountability court on Thursday handed over an accused involved in Pakistan-Arab housing scam to National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on 14-day physical remand.
Earlier, the NAB officials produced Pak-Arab housing society's deputy administrator retired Maj Ghulam Murtaza before Accountability Court Judge Syed Najamul Hassan and submitted that Murtaza was a co-accused in defrauding people and committing Rs.18 billion worth of corruption.
They submitted that Murtaza had fled abroad after the bureau launched an investigation into the scam.
"He has been arrested on his return," they added. The officials requested the court for physical remand of the accused for investigation purpose.
At this, the court handed over the accused to NAB till Dec 20 on physical remand, with a direction to produce him again on expiry of the remand term.
It is pertinent to mention that the NAB had already arrested Ammar Gulzar,owner of the Pak-Arab housing society, in connection with the scam.
The society's administration sold 5,200 kanals of land to citizens rather than 1,500-kanal of the allocated land.
The accused also sold out 8,500 files of plots without obtaining an NOC from the Lahore Development Authority. Not only this, the administration sold out one plot multiple times.
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