The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday obtained a four-day transit remand of former railways minister Khwaja Saad Rafiq enabling him to attend a meeting of standing committee on law and justice. A NAB investigating officer contended in the application that the chairman standing committee convened had a meeting on January 2 and summoned Saad Rafiq to attend the meeting and issued a production order to this effect. He asked the court to grant transit remand of Saad Rafiq for his attendance in the meeting.

The court allowed the request and granted transit remand of Khawaja Saad till January 4 accordingly. Khawaja Saad and his brother Khwaja Salman Rafiq are on physical remand with the NAB for their alleged role in Paragon City Housing Scheme scam.

The NAB alleged that Saad Rafiq through his wife Ghazala Saad and in connivance with his brother Salman Rafiq, with abetment of Qaiser Amin Butt and Nadeem Zia, established a housing project in the name of Air Avenue. The project was later converted into a new housing project Paragon City Pvt Ltd. It alleged that the record showed that the Paragon City was an illegal society and not approved by the Lahore Development Authority. The bureau said the suspects along with other accomplices cheated the public and obtained illegal financial benefits from the funds of the society.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019