PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday arrested Allauddin Khan, ex-chief engineer in (BPS-19) Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, allegedly involved in misuse of authority, illegal commissions and kickbacks from the supplier companies, causing a loss of Rs 24 million to the national exchequer.
As per detail, the Planning and Development Department of KPK constituted a provincial committee for standardization of engineering products and materials and the user departments have to procure the required engineering products / materials from the qualified firms / suppliers.
Accused Allauddin Khan, the then chief engineer, unilaterally and illegally shortlisted / fake /dummy firms without advertising the same in the media, and issued a circular to his subordinate officers to compulsorily make procurement from the dummy firms. Eventually, round about 350 voltage stabilizer were purchased at exorbitant rates causing a huge loss to the national exchequer.
It may be mentioned here that more than dozens’ of XEN’s and SDO’s of PHED have already been entered into Voluntary Return (VR) and deposited millions of rupees to the public exchequer in the instant case. The accused will be produced before the Accountability Court Peshawar for obtaining his physical remand.
