Daily Times

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has mistakenly summoned deceased brother of Khursheed Shah, Ali Nawaz Shah.

The NAB Sukkur summoned deceased Ali Nawaz Shah who passed away eight years ago in the case related to the Shah Spinning Mills Limited.

The ailing Khursheed Shah, who has been under treatment at the NICVD has also been called for the investigation by the NAB in the same case.  A case worth Rs 300 million fraudery was filed against Shah by the NAB.

Notably, a five-member joint investigation team was constituted for investigation against PPP leader Khursheed Shah and other suspects for allegedly holding assets beyond known sources of income.Head of this joint investigation team is Director General NAB Multan Attiq-Ur-Rehman.Abdul Hafeez of Federal board of Revenue (FBR), Deputy Registrar of Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) Rizwan Haroon and Deputy Director of Federal Investigation Agency Sajjad Mustafa Bajwa are also among the members of JIT.Name of investigation Officer of Khursheed Shah Case and Deputy Director NAB Abdul Hassan Kashan is also included in the JIT.Chairman NAB Justice Retd Javed Iqbal had decided to make a JIT for investigation of Khursheed Shah Case.

NAB had arrested senior PPP stalwart Khursheed Shah in September last year, in a case regarding his alleged assets beyond means. The anti-corruption watchdog had claimed that the former minister had acquired assets worth Rs 700 million on names of his front-men, and had misused his authority to give huge contracts to partners in Sindh, through which millions of rupees were embezzled.