MIRPUR: AJK Accountability Bureau has arrested an officer of the state-run bank after his bail plea was rejected from the Accountability Bureau Court No. 1 in the capital town in a corruption case, it was officially said.
The AJK Accountability Bureau police whisked Syed Baber Rafique Gillani, Manager Bank of Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Garhi Dopatta Branch from the court premises soon after his petition for bail was turned down by the learned court; AJK Accountability Bureau Spokesperson told APP here.
The arrested was immediately shifted to Theory Safe House/Investigation Center of the AJK Ehtesab (Accountability) Bureau, in outskirt of the capital town, where the investigators started further probe.
Gillani had secured bail before arrest to skip of the arrest in the case. The arrested banker was accused of massively misusing his powers through withdrawing the money from the fixed accounts of various account holders of the Bank in his branch in the form of loans on the fake names/ applicants.
Deputy Chief Prosecutor AJK Accountability Bureau Zaffar Iqbal Azad appeared on behalf of the Bureau. Sardar Pervez Niazi Advocate represented as Counsel of the accused.
The AJK Accountability Bureau has so far recovered Rs 18 million of the above misappropriated money from the alleged accomplices of the accused after the earlier arrests of various other officials of the aforesaid bank branch as a result of filing of a reference in the Accountability Bureau in the case.
