LAHORE: As part of its investigations into 56 public companies of Punjab government, National Accountability Bureau Lahore (NAB) has arrested four accused of embezzlement in the Punjab Saaf Pani Company (PSPC).
The arrested accused persons were identified as Nasir Qadir, Dr Zaheerul Din, Muhammad Saleem and Muhammad Masood Akhtar. The accused were involved in corruption of millions of rupees and substantial evidence has been have found against them, NAB said.
Accused Nasir Qadir worked as a chief procurement officer in PSPC. Dr Zaheerul Din was appointed as chief technical officer of the project while Saleem Akhtar worked with the company as a procurement and contract specialist. Accused Masoood Akhtar, KSB Pumps managing director, has been affiliated with the company as a contractor.
The accused persons in connivance with each other caused loss of millions of rupees to the national exchequer. They installed 116 water filtration plants on exorbitant rates in Bahawalpur and mentioned false estimates of the plants in documents.
