Former Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority chairman Tauqir Sadiq, allegedly involved in a Rs82 billion scam, has been shifted to Pakistan from United Arab Emirates.
Sadiq was brought back to Pakistan by a National Accountability Bureau (NAB) investigator Waqas Khan through a private airliner, which landed at the Islamabad's Benazir International Airport here on Wednesday morning. The development came after an Abu Dhabi court ordered deportation of Tauqir Sadiq on June 3.
The accused was shifted to the NAB headquarters in Rawalpindi and is expected to be produced before the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
The Supreme Court had ordered the NAB, Pakistan?s top anti-corruption body, to arrest him after declaring his appointment as OGRA chief illegal last year.
He fled abroad after the Supreme Court declared his appointment illegal on Nov 25, 2011, and ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to start an investigation against him.
In the Ogra corruption scam, two former prime ministers Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and Raja Pervez Ashraf are also being investigated with regard to the controversial appointment of Tauqeer Sadiq as chairman Ogra.