NAB gets another remand of Masoom Shah

PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Friday obtained further 11-day physical remand of Syed Masoom Shah, who was special assistant to former chief minister Ameer Haider Hoti during the previous Awami National Party and Pakistan People’s Party-led provincial government.
Accountability Court judge Muhammad Ibrahim Khan granted further remand of ANP leader Masoom Shah after the NAB prosecutor Riaz Khan requested for it.
At the previous hearing, the NAB claimed recovering gold bars weighing five kilograms. The recovery was made on the basis of the information divulged by Masoom Shah.
A NAB communiqué said that Masoom Shah had revealed during interrogation that he had got illegal asset in the shape of gold purchased through resources gained by corrupt practices.
The NAB arrested the accused on August 11 on the charges of corruption and accumulation of assets beyond his known sources of income.
The bureau claimed his assets included a house and hujra (guesthouse) on 12 kanals land in his village Battagram in Charsadda district, two precious plots of land in Hayatabad, two plots of land in Regi Model Town, two plots of land in Defence Housing Authority, Karachi, a precious house on the Tulip Road, Bahria Town in Rawalpindi, one kanal house in Zaryab Colony Peshawar, three kanal precious land in Tehkal Bala in Peshawar and one kanal land on the Warsak Road Peshawar.