ISLAMABAD: The Accou-ntability Court Islamabad hearing multi-billion rupees fake bank accounts case on Monday indicted former president Asif Ali Zardari and other accused in the Park Lane and Thatta Water Supply references.
The Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Azam Khan, while hearing the cases, marked attendance of Zardari and other accused, and framed charges against them.
The court also summoned three prosecution witnesses, including Nabeel Zahoor, Ahsan Aslam, and Abdul Qabeer in the Park Lane reference, during the next hearing to be held on October 20, and also summoned three witnesses in the Thatta Water Supply case including Imran Mehmood, Ali Raza, and Tariq Muneer on October 21.
Zardari was present in the court during the hearing, while the court indicted Omni Group Chairman Khawaja Anwar Majeed via video link from Karachi.
The court handed over the charge sheet to the counsel of all the accused for reading. The accused, Sher Ali, who failed to appear before the court during the previous hearing, appeared before the court.
Ali told the court that he could not appear during the previous hearing because of his ill health.
Talking to reporters after appearing before the court when Zardari was asked about Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khawaja Asif's remarks about him, he said that Asif might had given statement against him at the behest of someone.
Khawaja Asif's statement was an attempt to divide opposition, he said.
About the cases against him, he said that when they were in opposition the cases were filed against him.
Those who have been nominated by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the supplementary reference filed in the connection with Park Lane case included, Asif Ali Zardari, Muhammad Iqbal Memon, Drector Park Lane Company, M/s Park Lane Estate Private Limited, Muhammad Iqbal Khan Noori, Director M/s Parthenon (Pvt) Ltd, Muhammad Hanif Accountant M/s Park Lane Estate, M/s Parthenon (Pvt) Limited, an incorporated entity bearing certificate of incorporation under the provision of the Companies Ordinance 1984, and Hussain Lawai, former president Arif Habib Bank, and the Summit Bank.
The other accused included Abdul Ghani Majid, shareholder/director Regent Service (Pvt) Ltd multiple companies known as OMNI Group, Khawaja Anwar Majid shareholder director OMNI Group, Taha Raza public relationship manager Arif Habib Bank now Summit Bank, Farooq Abdullah area branch manager HBL, Uzair Naeem former AVP Summit Bank, M/s Tracom (Pvt) Ltd through GM south - an incorporated entity bearing certificate of incorporation under the provision of the companies office, Muhammad Saleem Faisal General Manger (GM) M/s Tracom (Pvt) Limited, and Zahir Ismail.
The anti-graft body nominated Asif Ali Zardari and 13 other suspects in the supplementary reference filed in the connection with Thatta Water Supply scam.
The bureau had not nominated Zardari in the interim reference, and Ashfaq Leghari, and in-charge Naudero House Nadeem Bhutto, in the supplementary reference.
In the interim reference, the bureau nominated 13 accused including Ejaz Ahmed Khan, former secretary of Special Initiative Department of Sindh, Hassan Memon, project director/chairman of the procurement committee for the water supply scheme, Thatta; members of the committee, Ali Akbar Abro, Aijaz Ahmed Memon, Athar Nawaz Durrani, Abdul Haleem Memon, Mohammad Farrukh Khan, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Siddiq Sulemani, and Zeeshan Hasan Yousaf, a private contractor Harish, CEO Omni Group Khawaja Abdul Ghani Majeed, and Minahal Majeed.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2020
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