SUKKUR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sukkur, has sought details of assets belonging to the family members and certain close relatives of former home minister Sohail Anwar Siyal from the departments/organisations concerned in an inquiry into alleged misappropriation of over Rs50 million from the provincial kitty.

According to sources in Sukkur NAB, an inquiry against the Siyal family regarding their assets beyond known sources of income is in an advanced stage and permission from the NAB chairman is being sought to go ahead with the inquiry.

Further details of such plots, agricultural lands and other properties/assets were being sought from the departments concerned as well as the Larkana commissioner, and deputy commissioners of Qambar-Shahdadkot, said a Sukkur NAB official on Thursday.

They said NAB investigators believed that he [Mr Siyal], through Asad Kharal and Abdul Sattar Kalhoro, amassed assets through occupation of government lands and transferring plots in Sundar Town, Gulshan-i-Mansoor, Gulshan-i-Saeed and other housing schemes in the names of his father, brother, wife and other family members.

Published in Dawn, June 28th, 2019