Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has appeared before the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Rawalpindi chapter in connection with multiple corruption cases.
NAB officials said the security for the chief minister’s visit had been made to prevent any untoward incident. The anti-graft watchdog had earlier claimed to have recovered Rs298 million in the Sindh Roshan programme case.
The chief minister will be probed in the Roshan Sindh programme in which he has been accused of illegally awarding contracts for purchase and distribution of solar lights in Sindh.
The Sindh Roshan programme case is one of the many ones falling under the fake accounts case. It relates to the installation of solar-powered street lights allegedly on allegedly illegal contracts in various districts of Sindh.
The chief minister arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday evening for the hearing. The bureau had also summoned Murad a few months back in the same investigation but he did not appear.
Former chief minister Sindh Syed Qaim Ali Shah had also appeared before NAB in the same case and had pleaded not guilty to any corruption charge. It was Qaim Ali Shah’s government that had approved the Sindh Roshan programme initiative.
