LAHORE: An Accountability Court has granted 15 days physical remand of a suspect, happened to be Executive Engineer of Public Works Department. The suspect, Zaheer Ahmed Warraich, is facing charges of corruption, and was arrested from Lahore.
According to details, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested the engineer on charges of holding assets of Rs 80 million beyond known sources of his income.
NAB received an application in 2015 from some whistle-blowers against Zaheer Ahmed Warraich and later the investigation officials unearthed that the accused got appointment in PWD as an Assistant Executive Engineer on August 13, 1991 and promoted as executive engineer on August 2008. During his service, the accused managed to acquire various assets worth Rs 80 million approximately.
The arrested accused illegitimately owns four luxury vehicles, various bank accounts in his own name and in the name of his brothers. While peering into details, he owns two houses of two kanal each, one kanal plot and one villa in a posh locality in Lahore.
Zaheer Ahmed also managed to acquire a share in controlled poultry sheds consisting of 32 kanals and almost 160 kanal of agriculture land in District Toba Tek Singh and 20 kanal agriculture lands in Faisalabad.
The Accountability Court has granted 15 days remand for further investigation against the accused.
