More documents produced before AC in Thatta water supply case
RECORDER REPORT
ISLAMABAD: The prosecution witness, on Wednesday, produced more documents before the Accountability Court in Thatta Water Supply case involving former president Asif Ali Zadari and others.
Prosecution witness, Syed Nadeem Ahmed, while recording his statement before the Accountability Court-II judge, Muhammad Azam Khan, produced different document before the court.
At the start of the hearing, Zardari and other accused’s counsel filed separate applications before the court seeking one-day exemption for their clients, which the court approved.
Accused Abdul Ghani Majeed’s counsel Arshad Tabraz and other defence counsel and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) prosecutor, Irfan Bola, appeared before the court.
The witness, while testifying before the court produced various documents related to the reference including original contract agreement dated March 21, 2015 of Thatta project executed between M/s Harish and Co and Engineer Hassan Ali Memon, project director Special Development Packages for district Thatta and Sujawal.
Along with copy of challan dated May 21, 2015 amounting to Rs493,000 tendered by M/s Harsh & Co, original measurement book bearing number 305 of the Thatta project and original bid document submitted by M/s Iqbal & Co. The court, after recording the statement of witness, adjourned hearing of the case till June 28th.
The anti-graft body nominated Asif Ali Zardari and 13 other suspects, in the supplementary filed in connection with Thatta water supply scam.
The bureau had not nominated Zardari in the interim reference, and Ashfaq Leghari, and in-charge Naudero House Nadeem Bhutto, in the supplementary reference.
In the interim reference, the bureau nominated 13 accused including Ejaz Ahmed Khan, former secretary of Special Initiative Department of Sindh, Hassan Memon, project director/chairman of the procurement committee for the water supply scheme, Thatta, members of the committee namely, Ali Akbar Abro, Aijaz Ahmed Memon, Athar Nawaz Durrani, Abdul Haleem Memon, Mohammad Farrukh Khan, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Siddiq Sulemani, and Zeeshan Hasan Yousaf, a private contractor Harish, CEO Omni Group Khawaja Abdul Ghani Majeed, and Minahal Majeed.
