ISLAMABAD/QUETTA: The name of Mir Khalid Khan Langove, former adviser to the Balochistan chief minister on finance, was placed on the exit control list (ECL) after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) obtained his 14-day physical remand in a mega corruption case on Thursday.
A senior NAB official told Dawn that the interior ministry had put Langove’s name on the ECL on a written request of the bureau.
Langove was produced before an accountability court in Quetta on Thursday amid tight security. The NAB prosecutor sought the ex-finance adviser’s 14-day remand which was granted by the court.
When contacted, NAB spokesman Nawazish Ali Asim refused to give any detail of the case. “Nothing can be shared about the case at the moment because revealing any information to the media can affect the inquiry proceedings,” he argued.
Langove has been accused of accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income. He was put under investigation after recently arrested Balochistan finance secretary Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani disclosed during interrogation that Langove was involved in the financial corruption.
Raisani was arrested on May 5 after currency notes amounting to Rs650 million were recovered from his residence during a raid.
The NAB official claimed that after the revelation made by Raisani, the ex-finance adviser was about to be removed by a competent authority, but he resigned from office before any action was taken against him.
NAB Balochistan arrested Langove from the Balochistan High Court premises on Wednesday after the court rejected his bail-before-arrest application filed by his counsel Baz Mohammad Kakar and Farooq H. Naek.
According to a handout issued by the NAB headquarters, the bureau issued three summons – on May 11, 12 and 18 – asking Langove to appear before its team in Quetta investigating the mega corruption case, but he failed to do so.
Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2016
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