NAB interrogates Murad Ali Shah in Roshan Sindh Program scam

KARACHI (92 News) – Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Murad Ali Shah on Wednesday has appeared before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in connection with Roshan Sindh Program inquiry.

According to details, a four-member team of the anti-graft watchdog has also interrogated the CM about sugar subsidy case and wheat crisis.

He was summoned in an inquiry over the appointments of 40 people in the provincial information department. NAB has claimed that these people were directly hired as Grade 17 officers and have been receiving salaries.

When the investigating officer asked the Sindh CM about it, Shah said that he does not know anything about these appointments, adding that he wasn’t the CM when they were hired.

NAB has claimed that several companies won contracts worth billions of rupees for the Roshan Sindh project by paying bribes. The inquiry into this scandal is among others taking place as part of the fake accounts case investigation.

He was at the NAB office for 45 minutes.

Roshan Sindh programme case

The accountability bureau has also been investigating the Sindh CM in the Roshan Sindh programme case. The case is related to the installation of solar streetlights in different districts of the province. It is one of the 28 cases that fall under the fake accounts case.

A Rural Development Authority director-general turned approver in the case told NAB that a contractor had given him a Rs90 million bribe and Rs70 million of it was pocketed by PPP leader Sharjeel Memon.

He has been sent a questionnaire in the case and has appeared before NAB Rawalpindi too.