SUKKUR: An accountability court has extended the hearing of the assets beyond means case against Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Khursheed Shah for 15 days.
The accountability court judge conducted the hearing. Khursheed Shah was brought in an ambulance for the hearing due to his ill health.
He was granted bail in December 2019 by an accountability court. However, the National Accountability Bureau challenged the decision of his release in the high court.
Khursheed Shah was arrested on 18th September last year by the NAB in Islamabad in a joint raid by the anti-corruption watchdog’s Rawalpindi and Sukkur bureau. His wives, son, and nephew are among eighteen co-accused in the reference and were also asked to appear in the court. He is facing charges of possessing assets amounting to Rs500 billion through illegal means.
According to the document, he was accused of transferring an amnesty plot in Sukkur, Rohri, and Karachi, Glamour Bungalow, Junejo Flour Mills, Mukesh Flour Mills including 83 other properties were made under Shah’s frontman, Pehlaj Rai.
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