PESHAWAR: NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has arrested Shah Wazir Khan, the then tehsildar in Chitral. He was presently working as judicial tehsildar in Swat district. He is allegedly involved in embezzlement of Rs 76 million by depriving the genuine beneficiaries of their due right of forest royalty in district Chitral in connivance with other people.
On the complaint of poor beneficiaries of Chitral, NAB KP initiated an inquiry in which it was revealed that as per policy of forest department /government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the forest royalty shall be equally distributed among the locals through Joint Forest Management Committee. Nevertheless, Shah Wazir Khan supported Noor Shahideen (private person) to make a fake Joint Forest Management Committee (JFMC) and made him chairman of the committee through the active connivance of other accused persons. The accused persons later on diverted and embezzled an amount of Rs 76 million through complex banking transactions and pocketed the same.
It merit to mention here that, NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has already arrested Gulzar-ur-Rehman, the then divisional forest officer Chitral, Prince Khalid Pervez, member district council Chitral, Noor Shahideen, Rehmat Karim, Malak Shaye in the instant case.
NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa actively perusing the case. The Accountability Court Peshawar granted 14 days physical remand into NAB custody.
