This will be Bilawal’s second appearance before NAB
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 14th May, 2019) The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has summoned Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto in fake accounts case.
NAB has directed the PPP chairman to appear in the bureau’s old headquarters on May 17.
According to media reports, the NAB will record Bilawal Bhutto’s statement in the case.
This will be Bilawal’s second appearance before NAB after he was summoned along with his father Asif Ali Zardari on March 20.
Bilawal and Zardari were grilled by the NAB in Fake Account and Park Lane Property case for two hours. The father-son duo was given a questionnaire regarding the case.
Earlier, the NAB had summoned Asif Zardari for recording his statement on May 9 in an inquiry regarding Sindh government's illegal award of contract to M/S Harish and company, and others. Zardari had sent an application to the NAB investigation team and sought more time for appearing before it. The application also mentioned that he was scheduled to appear before the accountability court, and therefore he could not show up in the bureau.
On May 8, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted him pre-arrest bail till May 15 in the case related to illegal award of contracts to private firms.
The case is part of an ongoing investigation being conducted by the anti-graft watchdog after the Supreme Court forwarded the joint investigation team (JIT) report in the fake accounts scandal and directed it to probe money laundering of billions of rupees through fictitious bank accounts and file references.PPP lawmaker Faryal Talpur, Omni Group's Anwar Majeed and his sons, and former pakistan stock exchange chairperson Hussain Lawai are among others being investigated in the case.
