NAB arrests former DG LDA Ahad Cheema

NAB arrests former DG LDA Ahad Cheema

Lahore (Staff Report): The National Accountability Bureau Lahore on Wednesday arrested LDA’s former DG Ahad Khan Cheema.

According to sources, the Cheema has been arrested from his Gulberg office. At present, Mr Cheema is the chief of two Punjab power companies.

The NAB has launched investigation into the contract agreement signed between the PLDC and M/s Anhui Construction Engineering Group owned by Director Paragon Exchange Ali Sajjad, M/s Bismillah Engineering Company owned by chief executive of Paragon City Nadeem Zia and M/s Sparco Group for construction of a housing project - Ashiana Iqbal Lahore -- under the public-private partnership.

Earlier, the NAB had summoned LDA’s former DG Ahad Cheema to record his statement as the ‘shady’ deal was signed when he was head of the LDA.