KAR
ACHI: The accountability court has issued arrest warrants for former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Babar Ghauri after National Accountability Bureau (NAB) filed a corruption reference against him.
The NAB has started an in
vestigation pertaining to corruption and illegal appointments in Karachi Port
Trust (KPT).
The accountability court issued non-bailable warrants for Ghauri.
Ghauri ha
d left the MQM in 2017.
The bureau also named the former chairman of the KPT Javaid Hanif and eight others in the corruption reference.
According to the reference, Hanif accused of misused his authorities and illegal appointments of 940 people in KPT, causing lo
sses pf Rs 2.885 billin to the national exchequer.
Earlier, NAB arrested Hanif in this case on July 3.
