ISLAMABAD, Sept 18 (INP): Pakistan Peoples Party leader Saleem Mandviwalla, refuting news about the return of a corruption reference against him, said that the reference filed against him was regarding wrongful allotment, not corruption.
The PPP leader said that news about the return of a corruption reference
against him is false. ‘How can court return a corruption reference that NAB
never filed?’ the PPP senator questioned.
Saleem said that NAB had filed the ‘Kidney Hills reference’ against him for
political engineering. ‘Kidney Hills reference’ was about the wrongful
allotment, not corruption, he added.
He added that he faced the law after NAB’s baseless allegations where the
accountability watchdog could not prove anything.
Accountability courts returned 50 NAB references declaring them out of the
court’s jurisdiction after the recent amends to the Accountability Act of
1999.
The accountability court returned the Ramzan sugar mill reference against
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shahbaz, NAB’s reference
against former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani for corruption in USF
funds, and six rental power corruption references filed against former Prime
Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf.
Moreover, courts returned references against PPP’s Saleem Mandviwalla, Aijaz
Haroon, former CM KP Sardar Mehtab Abbasi and PPP senator Rubeena Khalid
after the recent amends.
