PESHAWAR: The regional office of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has initiated investigation against Shangla Deputy Commissioner Abdul Kabir Khan and others over corruption and embezzlement of funds to the tune of Rs123.8 million.
This decision was taken during a regional board meeting of the NAB, K-P held under the chairmanship of its Director General Brigadier (r) Farooq Naser Awan on Sunday. The meeting was attended by directors, additional directors, case officers, senior legal consultants and other officers concerned.
The subjects were alleged to have embezzled funds allocated for the rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged by floods in 2016. During the course of inquiry, it was discovered that the deputy commissioner of Shangla misused his authority by enabling the execution agencies to select contractor without advertisement and disbursed funds without any codal formalities.
The flow of funds also suggests that tehsil municipal officer and tehsil nazim were at the same time executors, contractors and disbursers of the funds allocated for the rehabilitation of infrastructure, causing a huge loss to the national exchequer.
Besides this, the board also approved filing two references – one against Amin-ud-Din, the Director of Peshawar Development Authority (PDA) and the other against officers of Pakistan State Oil Company Limited (PSO) and the customs department.
The first reference against PDA director was regarding accumulation of assets worth Rs64.690 million beyond known sources of income.
The details of the assets are: market shops and godowns in Peshawar; five-marla plot in Ajab Khan Town Peshawar; one-kanal plot and luxury bungalow of one-kanal in Hayatabad; two five-marla houses; one-kanal plot in Regi Model Town; five-marla house on Ring Road; commercial unit in Markaz, Islamabad; one house on GT Road; unjustified investment in Muhammad Tariq Trading Company and fabrics business in Dubai; and investments in Paradise Silk Centre and IP Traders in Nowshera.
The second reference against officers of PSO, customs department and others was regarding misappropriation and misuse of authority committed in the consignments of petroleum tankers for export to Afghanistan via Torkham Border.
The accused made fake exports of 55 consignments of POL products and sold them in the local market causing a loss of Rs23.040 million to the national exchequer.
At the end, the NAB DG appealed to the general public to join hands with the NAB, K-P for eradication of corruption from the entire province.
