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KARACHI: The legal troubles of the prime suspect in the Rs8.5 billion Yellow Line graft case, Zameer Abbasi, have further increased as the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated an inquiry into his alleged possession of assets beyond his known sources of income and his alleged “illegal appointments” or “promotions in the Sindh government”.
Earlier in June, the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Sindh had booked Abbasi, the then project director of the Karachi Mobility Project (KMP), and others following an inquiry into alleged financial mismanagement in the KMP related to the Yellow Line.
The inquiry committee report stated that Abbasi and then director procurement Jhaman made Rs8.5bn advance payments to contractors without bank guarantees despite the fact that their contracts lacked any specific clause regarding “advance payment and financial assistance to the contractors”.
A source told Dawn that the NAB had initiated an inquiry against the senior bureaucrat over allegations of possessing assets beyond his known sources of income and illegal appointments or promotions in the Sindh government.
