LAHORE: Prime Minister's Principal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad has appeared before National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore today and is recording his statement in a corruption probe. 

Fawad had been earlier summoned by the bureau on Thursday (yesterday) for his alleged role in illegally awarding the contract for the Ashiana-e-Iqbal Housing Scheme of the provincial government.

A three-member NAB team is questioning the senior bureaucrat at the moment. 

According to NAB, the contract for the project was won by a construction company titled Chaudhry Latif and Sons.

Ashiana housing scheme: PM?s principal secretary summoned before NAB Lahore today

Fawad Hasan Fawad is said to have aided Punjab CM in awarding contract to a company of their choice

However, the anti-graft body stated, Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif and his aides awarded it instead to Lahore Casa Developers ? a proxy group of Paragon City (Pvt) Limited, which is said to be owned by Railways Minister Saad Rafique.

Fawad, who was a senior bureaucrat in the Punjab government at the time, levelled charges of wrongdoings against Chaudhry Latif and Sons in order for the contract to be awarded to Casa Developers.

On January 22, Shehbaz recorded his statement at NAB in the inquiry related to the housing scheme.