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NAB seeks details

against 58

detained persons

KARACHI: The Investigation Wing of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has asked the sensitive agencies and financial institutions to provide further evidences against already arrested 58 top loan defaulters and corrupt persons.

The latter was sent to sensitive investigation agencies including the FIA and the Anti-Corruption Departments of all provinces.

Banks received the letter through the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Saturday.

The names of the persons against whom further evidences have been required by the NAB included: (Karachi Region) Asif Ali Zardari s/o Hakim Ali Zardari (corrupt practices), Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif s/o Mian Mohammed Sharif (corrupt practices), Mujeebur Rehman s/o Aman Ullah (loan defaulter) Gul Mohammed Abbassi s/o Abdul Nabi Khan Abbasi (corrupt practices), Ajmal Mahmoodi s/o S.M. Saleem Mehmoodi (corrupt practices), Abdul Sattar Dero s/o Ghulam Haider Dero (corrupt practices), Shahbaz Sharif s/o Mian Mohammed Sharif (loan defaulter) Syed Naveed Qamar s/o Qamar-uz-Zaman Shah (Ittehad Chemicals/Makkarwal case), Agha Siraj Durani s/o Aghar Saddar-ud-Din Durrani (embezzlement case, furniture), Ramesh Udeshi (Illegal allotment of plots), Usman Farooqi (corrupt practices), Bhool Chand s/o Tara Mal (corrupt practices), Irfan Puri (corrupt practices), Mian Munir Ahmed s/o Fazal Ahmed (loan defaulter), Ch. Mohammad Sharif (assets), Rana Maqbool (corrupt practices as DIG & IG), Alim Adil Shaikh (land grabber), Safdar Abbas Zaidi (corruption in HBL & IDBP), Dr Farooq Sattar, Zakaria Ghani s/o Umer Haji (loan defaulter), Islamud Din Shaikh s/o Noor Mohammed Shaikh (loan defaulter), Ch. Munawar Hussain Sandhu s/o Ch. Mohammed Boota (loan defaulter), Saifur-Rehman s/o Aman Ullah (loan defaulter), Abdul Shakoor Kaloodi s/o Mohammed Ismail Kaloodi (loan defaulter).

The names classified for Lahore region were Ch. Zulfiqar Ali s/o Ch. Umer Din (loan defaulter), Asif Saigal s/o Rafiq Saigal (loan defaulter), Syed Faisal Saleh Hayat (loan defaulter), M. Nawaz Khokhar (loan defaulter), Jaffer Khan Leghari (loan defaulter), Ghulam Mohammed Murtaza (loan defaulter), Major Malik Nawaz (Retd) (corrupt practices), Anwar Saifullah (Dhodak Oil Field case), Manzoor Ahmed Wattoo (Beachcraft case), Abbas Sharif (corrupt practices), Sher Ali (corrupt practices), Nawaz Tiwana (corrupt as MD PIA/Illegal appointments), Kamal Qureshi, Javed Kiani, Akram, Mukhtiar, Haroon Pasha, Khawaja Asif (All these accused of extending assistance in corruption in Ittefaq Group).

In the jurisdiction of Rawalpindi, the names were that of Air Marshal Waqar Azeem (Retd) (loan defaulter), Mian Waqar Akhtar Paganwala (loan defaulter), Malik Asad Khan s/o Malik Amir Muhammad Khan (loan defaulter), Hussain Nawaz s/o Mian Nawaz Sharif (corrupt practices), Brig Imtiaz Ahmad (Retd) (corrupt practices), Sarwar Kakar (corrupt practices), Shati Sewani (fraud/embezzlement in CDA), Mian Iqbal Fareed (assets), Muhammad Hanif (corrupt patwari/land misappropriation).

In Peshawar the cases pertained to Javed Alam Khanzada (assets), Khalid Aziz (assets), Zahir Shah (corrupt as chairman PDA/Ring Road scam), Saeed Mehdi (nisuse of authority/purchase of plots), Mehtab Abbasi (corrupt practices), Habibur Rehman Tanoli (corruption) Azam Hoti (misuse of power as minister of communication/Port Qasim/motorway).

All these persons are already under detention.ÑAPP