KARACHI: The administrative judge of the accountability courts on Tuesday remanded a suspect in the custody of the National Accountability Bureau in a case pertaining to accumulation of assets beyond his known sources of income.

The federal anti-graft watchdog claimed to have arrested Izhar Hussain, an alleged frontman of former provincial minister Sharjeel Memon, in the Defence Housing Authority area on Monday.

On Tuesday, the investigating officer produced him before the administrative judge and said that NAB had collected evidence, including documents of the properties purchased by him in excess of his income. The IO sought physical remand of the detained suspect in NAB custody for interrogation.

Judge Fareed Anwar Qazi remanded the suspect in NAB custody till May 9 with the direction to the IO to produce him on the next date of hearing and also submit a progress report.

Published in Dawn, May 1st, 2019