ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Wednesday indicted former prime minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf in Reshma Power Generation Private Ltd. and Gulf Rental Power Private Ltd. scams.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader appeared before the court during which a charged sheet was handed over to him. The accused denied all the allegations.
The court summoned the ex-PM in next hearing and adjourned the proceedings till August 7.
Earlier on June 3, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) court had indicted Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and other accused persons in the Rental Power Plants (RPPs) scam.
The court had framed charges against Ashraf on three RPPs including Reshma Power Generation Private Ltd, Gulf Rental Power Private Ltd, and Young Gen Power Ltd.
The RPPs case is about private power companies that faced allegations of receiving more than Rs22 billion mobilization advance from the government to commission the projects but failed to set up the plants.
A few of them had set up the plants, but only after an inordinate delay.
The ex-PM is accused of misusing his authority during his tenure as power minister for approval of increasing down payment to the rental power companies from 7 to 14 percent, amounting to about Rs22 billion.
