Ex-brigadier, others remanded
By our correspondents
June 25, 2016
LAHORE
An Accountability Court on Friday remanded a retired brigadier and four others into NAB custody for nine days on the charges of misappropriation of Rs 54 million in the Defence Canal Road project.
During the hearing, NAB officials produced Brigadier (retired) Muhammad Arif Khan, Atif Rasheed, Sohaib Arshad, Naseem Abbas and Ali Abbas before the court. The officials said that the suspects caused a loss to national exchequer by fraudulently withdrawing Rs50 million from funds of the Defence Canal Road project. They pleaded the court for physical custody of the suspects for interrogation. According to NAB, Arif in connivance with others fraudulently withdrew Rs. 54m from the funds of the project through bogus vouchers.
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