Lahore, July 5 (TNS): The National Accountability Bureau on Thursday arrested the country\u2019s senior-most Bureaucrat Fawad Hassan Fawad, in the Ashiana Housing Scheme Case.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Fawad served as former PM Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary and is considered close to the former premier.<\/p>\n
Fawad was appointed director general of Civil Services Academy, Lahore.<\/p>\n
The former Top Bureaucrat\u00a0is wanted for his alleged role in illegally awarding the contract for Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme of the Punjab government.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
According to NAB, the contract for the housing scheme was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
PML-N president,Shehbaz\u00a0has 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.<\/p>\n
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