Islamabad, June 27 (NAB): National Accountability Bureau Karachi has called former Finance Minister Mifta Ismail on July 5, 2018 in JJVL case.
NAB has also authorized Complaint Verification against Senator Rana Mehmoodul Hassan for having accumulation of assets beyond known sources of income.
The country’s anti-graft body had also summoned Miftah Ismail on June 20 for awarding controversial contracts for the sale of natural gas liquids (NGL).
Ismail chaired the board of directors meeting in which these tenders were approved. According to NAB, five previous tenders were handed to JJVL which violated a Supreme Court’s verdicts on the matter. Ismail also served as chairman of the SSGCL from November 2013 to November 2017, and has been summoned by NAB in this capacity.
He joins a tirade of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz leaders who are facing NAB investigations. Many lawmakers and ministers belonging to the party are currently making rounds of NAB including former railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique, former finance minister Ishaq Dar, Nawaz Sharif, former foreign minister Khawaja Asif, former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal and even Nawaz’s son-in-law Capt (retd) Safdar and daughter Maryam.
