ABU DHABI: The UAE authorities handed over Tauqir Sadiq, the fugitive chief of the Oil and Gas Regularity Authority (Ogra), to a team of officials of the National Accountability Bureau on Monday night.

According to TV channel reports, Mr Sadiq who is accused of being involved in a multi-billion rupee scam, was to be bought to Pakistan by a private airline flight which was scheduled to take off late in the night.