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LAHORE, July 25: The NAB on Friday got an absconding accused in Emirates Bank scam extradited to Pakistan from the US.
Naeemuddin Sahaf, the principal accused in the reference, was declared a proclaimed offender by an accountability court last year owing to his persistent absence from the trial. Later, the NAB authorities spotted him in the US and got him extradited to Pakistan under an extradition agreement between the two countries.
He is the third accused in the reference to be extradited after Agha Matloob and Shahid Salim from the UAE. They along with Shahiduddin Sahaf have been accused of having misappropriated Rs280 million of Emirates Bank, Kashmir Road branch, Lahore. As alleged by the prosecution, they forged the signatures of another bank official on a draft and encashed it subsequently.
PARCO CASE: The principal accused in PARCO land scam reference was arrested by the Punjab NAB from Multan.
Amjad Sandhal, the former land acquisition controller, appointed in a PARCO oil pipeline project covering areas between Muzaffargarh and Faisalabad had been declared a proclaimed offender by the trial court and was wanted by the NAB. He will be produced before the court on Saturday by the NAB for obtaining his physical remand.
The accused entertained the fake claims of patwaris and tehsildars pretending to be the PARCO project victim and sanctioned compensation from the state funds worth millions of rupees.
He was also accused of having misappropriated the state funds earmarked for distribution among the victims abusing his official position.
