PESHAWAR: NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has arrested Gulzar-ur-Rehman, the then Divisional Forest Officer Chitral, presently working as Assistant Professor Forest College Peshawar, Prince Khalid Pervez, Member District Council Chitral, Noor Shahideen , Rehmat Karim and Malak Shaye, who were allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 76 million by depriving the genuine beneficiaries of their forest royalty in connivance with each other.
On the complaint of poor beneficiaries, NAB KP initiated an inquiry in which it was revealed that as per the policy of forest department /the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the forest royalty should have to be distributed among the locals through Joint Forest Management Committee.
However, Noor Shahideen (private person) made a fake Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) and fraudulently made himself chairman of the committee through the active connivance of other accused persons. The accused persons later on diverted an amount of Rs 76 million through complex banking transactions and pocketed the same.
NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa actively perusing the case. The accused persons will be produced before Accountability Court Peshawar for obtaining their physical remand.
