LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore has has re-arrested an accused, Zahid Imtiaz, over illegal sale of surrendered properties, and got his physical remand till December 26.
The NAB authorities produced the accused before an accountability court judge and submitted that the accused was arrested in 2010 following corruption allegations levelled against him. However, the accused got bail from the Lahore
High Court after approval of his voluntary return application on surrendering four properties worth Rs 10 million to the government bank, they added.
They submitted that the accused did not cooperate for transfer of the said properties and it was revealed later that the accused sold three properties in violation of Section 23 of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999. They pleaded with the court to grant physical remand of the accused.
The court handed over the accused to NAB on physical remand till Dec 26 and ordered for his production in the court on the expiry of the remand term.
