PML-N senior leader and previous unfamiliar clergyman Khawaja Asif has been captured by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Islamabad, a representative for the bureau affirmed on Tuesday. 

“Seize Lahore has captured Khawaja Muhammad Asif in resources past known kinds of revenue case,” the authority told DawnNewsTV. 

As per the bureau’s representative, the PML-N leader had prior been brought for a request yet he neglected to give the necessary proof.

The representative said Asif held an iqama (work grant) from 2004 to 2008, adding that he professed to have procured an aggregate of Rs136 million for his administrations as an advisor legitimate guide. 

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The PML-N leader was coordinated to submit subtleties of the compensation he got and other data. He was additionally approached to give the employment form he had submitted to an unfamiliar organization just as his iqama understanding. 

“Khawaja Asif persistently neglected to coordinate during the request,” the representative stated, adding that he was captured with the endorsement of the NAB executive. 

The authority said Asif would be introduced under the steady gaze of an accountability court on Wednesday to acquire his remand. 

In a press explanation gave later, NAB Lahore said that the investigation against Asif was being led under Section 5 of the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 and Section 3 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act 2010. 

As indicated by the statement, Asif was chosen as representative in 1991, preceding which he had complete resources of Rs5.1 million. By 2018, this figure had expanded to Rs221 million, which isn’t reasonable with his known types of revenue, said NAB Lahore. 

Plus, the statement added, Asif was running a benami organization for the sake of his worker, Tariq Mir. An amount of Rs 400 million was kept in the ledger of the organization, named ‘Tariq Mir and Company’, yet there was no data about the types of revenue, said NAB Lahore. 

Responding to the turn of events, PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif in a tweet censured the capture, naming it a piece of “the nexus of the selectors and the chose”.

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