KARACHI: The NAB Karachi has arrested an accused identified as Aleem uddin s/o Zia Uddin, wanted in Reference No. 35/2015, State vs Haroon Panjwani and Others.
A NAB Karachi statement issued here on Thursday said that he was charged along with other accused persons namely Mansoor Ahmed and Asad Abbasi for `fraudulently selling out Government Land to another accused member of their group namely Haroon Panjwani against sale consideration
of Rs 39.7 million who further fraudulently sold out the same land to general public showing it as regularised Gothabad land’. The NAB statement said that the racket of above mentioned accused persons cheated more than 500 innocent members of general public by selling approximately 582 plots of various categories in Hassan Brohi Goth, Deh Nagan District West Karachi.
They further established Memon colony over that land within Hassan Brohi Goth and sold out the plots and constructed houses to innocent people and cheated the public for an amount of Rs 187 million. They handed over fake and fictitious Sannads of Gothabad Scheme to the public mala fidely showing the land is regularized by Government under Gothabad Housing Scheme Act 1987.
Main accused person Haroon Panjwani is already in judicial custody while accused Aleemuddin would be produced before Accountability Court accordingly, the NAB statement further pointed out.
