Lahore, July 5 (TNS): The National Accountability Bureau on Thursday arrested the country’s senior-most Bureaucrat Fawad Hassan Fawad, in the Ashiana Housing Scheme Case.
NAB officials, however, said the top civil servant has not been apprehended and his inquiry underway under way. A bureau spokesperson said the NAB chairman will make a decision on Fawad’s arrest.
Fawad had been summoned by NAB today for questioning in the housing scheme scam. He has appeared three times before in the NAB court for investigation.
Fawad served as former PM Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary and is considered close to the former premier.
Fawad was appointed director general of Civil Services Academy, Lahore.
The former Top Bureaucrat is wanted for his alleged role in illegally awarding the contract for Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme of the Punjab government.
Fawad is also being probed by NAB for possession of assets beyond known sources of income as well as for alleged illegal award of CNG contracts.
According to NAB, the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons.
However, NAB says then Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his aides awarded the contract to Lahore Casa Developers, a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by Railways Minister Saad Rafique.
PML-N president,Shehbaz has already appeared before NAB in the case while former Lahore Development Authority chairman Ahad Cheema is on judicial remand after having been arrested over the case.
