Nine accused, facing corruption references for their alleged involvement in a massive Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority (OGRA) scam have been barred from traveling abroad.
According to Ministry of Interior, those whose names have been put on the Exit Control List (ECL) include chief of AKD Securities, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, former MD Sui Northern Gas Pipeliines Ltd (SNGPL) Rashid Lone, former SSGC MD Azeem Iqbal Siddiqui, Zia, SSGC MD Zubair Siddiqui, GM SSGC Syed Arsalan, Deputy MD Yousaf J Ansari, Ogra official Jawwad Jamil, members SSGC & SNGPL BoD Mirza Mehmood.
The supplementary reference in the Ogra corruption case was filed against the accused Tauqeer Sadiq, Mansoor Muzaffar, Mir Kamal Fareed Bijrani, Jawad Jamil, Dewan Zia ur Rehman Farooqi, Abdur Rashid Lone, Zohair Siddique, Azeem Iqbal Siddique, Aqeel Karim Dhedhi, Syed Arsalan Iqbal, Mirza Mehmood Ahmed and Yousaf J Ansari.
The interim reference against the prime accused Tauqeer Sadiq in the multi-billion scam of Rs82 billion had already been filed in the accountability court in November 2012.
