The Accountability Court hearing multibillion rupees fake bank accounts case on Friday approved plea bargain application of another accused in the Thatta Water Supply Scheme references after National Accountability Bureau (NAB) recovered Rs 20.3 million from him. An official of NAB informed the Accountability Court Judge Muhammad Bashir that the owner of Harish & Company, namely Harish, had filed an application for plea bargain. Chairman NAB Justice Javed Iqbal (retd) has approved the application and the accused returned Rs 20.3 million.
The investigation officer (IO) submitted a report regarding plea bargain before the court and the court approved it. In the reference, the bureau nominated 13 accused persons including Ejaz Ahmed Khan, former secretary of Special Initiative Department of Sindh; Hassan Memon, project director/chairman of the procurement committee for the water supply scheme, Thatta; and members of the committee namely Ali Akbar Abro, Aijaz Ahmed Memon, Athar Nawaz Durrani, Abdul Haleem Memon, Mohammad Farrukh Khan, Mohammad Ramzan, Mohammad Siddiq Sulemani and Zeeshan Hasan Yousaf, private contractor Harish, Omni Group CEO Khawaja Abdul Ghani Majeed, and Minahal Majeed.