LAHORE: An accountability court on Friday granted 14-day physical remand of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad for questioning over the charges of corruption and power abuse. <br /><br />NAB officials produced the senior bureaucrat before the court and requested it to grant his 14-day physical remand for interrogation.<br /><br />The accountability judge allowed their plea and handed over the custody of Fawad to them with direction to produce him in court on expiry of his remand with a progress report.<br /><br />The NAB had taken Fawad into custody on Thursday in the Ashiana Iqbal Housing Scheme scandal.<br /><br />The anti-corruption burea tightened noose around one of the country’s senior-most bureaucrats as the Director General (DG) NAB informed that Fawad Hassan Fawad has been arrested in three graft cases and the officials of NAB questioning him.<br /><br />Three corruption cases against former premier Nawaz Sharif’s principal secretary involved Ashiana Housing Scheme, illegal employment in a private bank and unlawful transfer of nine CNG stations.
