ISLAMABAD: Fawad, Zubaida record statements; Sheikh Rashid submits response that he has no proof, docs
Members of former prime minister Imran Khan’s cabinet were summoned by the National Accountability Bureau in a case of allegedly illegal settlement of 190 million pounds recovered from the UK.
Former ministers Fawad Chaudhry, Pervaiz Khattak, Zubaida Jalal and Sheikh Rashid recorded their statements as witnesses before the bureau’s Rawalpindi office today.
Khattak’s lawyer appeared on his behalf before the NAB Rawalpindi and submitted his response. Former minister Sheikh Rashid submitted his reply to the NAB notice summoning him in the case.
He claimed that when the matter was raised in the former cabinet, he was not present in the meeting, adding he was not even in touch with Shahzad Akbar as the two were not on talking terms.
Sheikh Rashid further said he did not have any proof in the case and neither did he possess any documents related to it. “I had left before the matter came up in the cabinet meeting of December 13, 2019,” he said in his response to the NAB.
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed was instructed to appear at the NAB Rawalpindi office at 11am today. Fawad Chaudhry has been instructed to appear before the combined investigation team of the NAB at noon today.
Former minister Asad Umar has also been issued a summons for May 31. The NAB has decided to record the statement of Imran Khan’s entire cabinet as witnesses in the case.
The federal cabinet had on Monday added the PTI chairman and his wife Bushra Bibi’s names to the Exit Control List due to their involvement in the alleged illegal transfer of 190 million pounds in the Al-Qadir Trust case.
