NAB gets 14-day remand for Ex-OGRA Chief in fraud

An accountability court in Rawalpindi Tuesday granted 14-day physical remand of prime accused in the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) graft case Tauqir Sadiq.

Former chairman Ogra Sadiq, who was extradited from UAE early morning, was produced in the NAB court.

Tauqeer Sadiq is the main accused in the 82 billion rupees corruption case.

The accountability court Judge Mohammad Bashir gave Tauqeer Sadiq to NAB for a fourteen-day physical remand on the request of the NAB prosecutor general.

The judge ordered the NAB to produce Tauqeer Sadiq on 23 July.

During the hearing, National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) investigator claimed that Sadiq had initially escaped to Afghanistan in a rickshaw

The former Ogra chairman accused the investigator of subjecting him to torture. The investigator Waqas Khan denied the charges.

Earlier‚ Tauqir Sadiq was taken into custody by a NAB team in the United Arab Emirates and brought back to Pakistan.

The UAE authorities had handed over Sadiq to the Interpol, which last night gave his custody to NAB’s investigator Waqas Khan.

On June 19, 2013, former chairman Ogra had voluntarily surrendered himself in a one-page handwritten statement. The development came after an Abu Dhabi court ordered the deportation of Sadiq on June 3, with a 30-day period to file an appeal against the order.

Sadiq is the prime accused in the Rs82 billion scam of issuing new CNG licences, increasing gas tariff and allowing relocation of the functional stations.

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