Multi-billion rupee scam: On Facebook chat, OGRA ex-chief offers to surrender check online:-
ISLAMABAD:
After dodging the law for over eight months, the main character in a multi-billion-rupee scam, former chairman of the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (Ogra) Tauqeer Sadiq said on Saturday that he was ready to surrender to Interpol.
On Wednesday, sources in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said Sadiq had been arrested in Abu Dhabi with the help of Interpol. However, in a chat with The Express Tribunecorrespondents on social networking website Facebook, Sadiq denied his reported arrest.
“So far I am a free man. Interpol has not contacted me as yet,” Ogra’s former boss said. “I know my movement is being tracked.”
Sadiq claimed that he was being “set up” by a lobby which was annoyed with his sincere efforts to curb corruption in Ogra. He added that he was ready to defend himself in the Supreme Court.
“As chairman [Ogra], I disposed of cases in days that used to remain pending inquiry for years. I regularised the system and this certain lobby was not happy with that,” said Sadiq. “They (the lobby) is so big [and powerful], removing a chairman is not a problem for them,” he added.
