ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s top accountability watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau, has named former prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf in the Rs22bn Rental Power Projects (RPPs) case.
The bureau filed a 263-page reference against the former prime minister in an accountability court yesterday, sources said. Proceedings for the case are now scheduled to resume on November 19.
Ashraf, a Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) politician who served as premier between June 22, 2012 and March 25, 2013, is accused of receiving kickbacks and commissions from nine rental power project firms for awarding contracts for setting up their projects in 2008 to overcome electricity crisis in the country.
NAB has been investigating 12 RPPs cases in which nine firms reportedly received more than Rs22bn as mobilisation advance from the government to commission the projects, but most of them were accused of failing to set up plants. The bureau has already recovered Rs13bn in the case. A bureau official said last week that NAB Rawalpindi has completed investigation into five of the 12 RPPs cases.
“Four of them are about Naudero-II Power Project, Piraghaib Power Project, Sahiwal Power Project and Karkey,” he said.
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