NAB tightens noose around Siraj Durrani, probes servants’ assets  

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) tightened noose around Sindh Assembly Speaker Agha Siraj Durrani and expanded the scope of its inquiry in a case pertinent to accumulation assets beyond his sources of income, sources on Wednesday told ARY News.

According to the sources, NAB officials contacted Federal Board of Revenue and sought assets’ details of Agha Siraj Durrani’s servants.

They said that NAB launched investigation into the assets owned by Noor Hassan and Mitha Khan, the servants of Agha Siraj Durrani.

FBR also provided NAB income record of Agha Siraj Durrani from 1985 to 2018. As per FBR record, Durrani’s annual income was Rs4.49mn in 1985 while his current annual income was over Rs82.9mn.

It is pertinent to mention here that Agha Siraj Durrani purchased 20 properties after 2010. The Sindh assembly speaker told the anti graft agency that the properties were parched by Rs151.6 mn while in fact over Rs450mn were paid to purchase the properties, said the sources.

Read More: Foreign currency, gold recovered from Agha Siraj Durrani, family’s bank lockers: NAB

Earlier, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials, on March 5, had searched private bank lockers of the arrested Speaker Sindh Assembly Agha Siraj Durrani and his family members.

ARY News had acquired the list of valuables recovered from the private bank lockers belonging to the arrested politician and his family members.

NAB sources had said that the lockers were searched in presence of a judicial magistrate, whereas bank lockers’ manager, operation manager and other senior officials were also present.