ISLAMABAD: An Accountability Court here has sent former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and former finance minister Miftah Ismail to jail on judicial remand in the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) corruption case.
Both the leaders of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) were presented before the accountability court judge Mohammad Bashir today by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB).
During the hearing, the anti-graft watchdog requested the AC judge to extend the physical remand of former premier Abbasi which the court rejected and ordered to send him to the jail on judicial remand.
Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, in his statement comprising of 9 pages and submitted to the court, said that the political engineering was being done against the PML-N.
“They [NAB] arrest suspects first and then file a case against him. I want to ask them if there’s no case against anyone, then why do you arrest and humiliate people,” Abbasi said.
While levelling allegations against NAB, Khaqan Abbasi said that the bureau was threatening two officers to become approvers in his case.
“They [NAB] are contacting them again and again and threatening them to become approver against me,” he said.
It should be know that the former premier was arrested by the anti-graft watchdog on July 18 in a multi-billion-rupee LNG scam during his tenure as minister for petroleum and natural resources in PML-N’s government.
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