ISLAMABAD, Oct 12: An accountability court on Friday granted seven days remand of two co-accused till October 18 in the Shafi Sehwani corruption case.

Abdul Aziz Khan Niazi and Aitzaz Ahmad Khan Niazi, the cousins of the former Capital Development Authority chairman Shafi Sehwani, were arrested in Islamabad on Thursday.

According to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) the co-accused accumulated assets in the name of Mr Sehwani.

Judge Sakhi Hussain Bokhari of the accountability court III directed the prosecution to produce the accused before the court on October 18.

The fresh reference against the two co-accused have not yet been submitted before the court till Friday.

Meanwhile Mr Sehwani, who was present in the court in connection with another corruption reference, told Dawn that he was facing five reference made out of one.

The NAB had earlier prepared a single reference against him for accumulating assets by misusing his authority.

“All these five references are the break up of the reference which the NAB authorities had filed against me earlier and all contain similar allegations of allotting plots to different relatives” he said.

The two Niazis were accused of acting as a frontmen of Mr Sehwani in accumulating assets worth Rs202 millions through corruption.

According to the prosecution Abdul Aziz Khan Niazi acquired three kanal residential plots in one of the prime sectors of Islamabad.

An industrial plot was allotted in the name of Aitzaz Khan Niazi.

The combined value of these two plots is more than Rs20 million.

Abdul Aziz Khan Niazi, according to NAB, invested over Rs9.6 million in different stock exchanges during October 1998 to October 1999, despite the fact that he did not hold any regular job nor was he involved in any business activity.

Meanwhile Aitzaz Ahmad Khan Niazi, the brother-in-law of Mr Sehwani, filed his income tax returns and wealth tax returns for the first time in 1997-98, after investigations into his source of income and properties were started.

Both the persons have no ostensible source of income to justify the ownership of these properties, the NAB believes.