Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman and prime minister-nominee Imran Khan appeared before the country’s anti-corruption body National Accountability Bureau’s combined investigation committee (CIT) Tuesday (August 7).

The National Accountability Bureau's (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa office handed over a questionnaire to him over probe his alleged illegal use of a helicopter that belonged to the KP government.

According to NAB officials, the questionnaire is based on 15 questions over Imran's alleged illegal use of a provincial government-owned, Mi-17 and an Ecureuil helicopter for 74 hours, which caused a loss of Rs2.1 million to the national exchequer.

Imran Khan has 15 days to submit his response to the questionnaire. 

The PTI chief had been summoned by the accountability body on July 18, but had sought more time to appear due to his busy schedule for campaigning for the general election. He had submitted an application to the NAB through his counsel Babar Awan seeking another date to appear in the case.

On January 29 this year, Geo News reported that the former KP government spent millions of rupees on Imran's use of the provincial government's helicopters.

NAB chairman Justice (retired) Javed Iqbal in February directed the bureau to launch a probe against the PTI chief and then-KP chief minister Pervez Khattak over the unofficial use of two government helicopters by misusing authority.

Source: Geo News

BDST: 1012 HRS, AUG 8, 2018
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