An accountability court on Wednesday granted National Accountability Bureau (NAB) five-day physical remand of Ali Akbar Abro in Thatta water supply scheme reference. In a fake bank accounts case, NAB officials produced Abro before accountability court judge Muhammad Bashir for obtaining physical remand. The bureau had arrested the accused from Karachi.
Usman Mirza, NAB prosecutor, told the court that the accused had taken Rs 49.5 million as a bribe from Brush & Company and received the amount through a bank cheque.
He requested the court to grant physical remand of the accused for recovery of more documents related to the case. The defence counsel objected to the NAB's request and prayed the court to reject the prosecution's plea.
The court after hearing the arguments of both the parties remanded the accused into the NAB's custody till June 17.
In the reference, the bureau nominated 13 accused persons 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; and members of the committee namely Ali Akbar Abro, Aijaz Ahmed Memon, Athar Nawaz Durrani, Abdul Haleem Memon, Mohammad Farrukh Khan, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Siddiq Sulemani and Zeeshan Hasan Yousaf private contractor Harish, Omni Group CEO Khawaja Abdul Ghani Majeed, and Minahal Majeed.
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