ISLAMABAD, July 31: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Monday arrested former corps commander and ex-chairman of Wapda Zahid Ali Akbar and filed a reference against him in an accountability court for alleged corruption and maintaining a standard of living beyond his known sources of income.

According to NAB, the reference against Mr Akbar has been filed in an accountability court in Lahore.

NAB sources told Dawn that the accused had been under investigation for one and a half years.

Mr Akbar was stated to be the first former corps commander in the country against whom a corruption case had been filed by NAB, the sources said.

NAB claimed that the accused, during his tenure as chairman of the Water and Power Development Authority and Pakistan Cricket Board from 1987 to 1992, had committed acts amounting to corruption.

Evidence collected during the investigation established that the accused owned assets worth Rs176 million in his name and in the names of his dependents and ‘benamidars’, the bureau claimed.

The assets include 77 bank accounts in rupees and dollars in Pakistan in his name and in the names of his relatives and business concerns.

The former Rawalpindi corps commander has been accused of sending abroad remittances of $706,200 from 1993 to 1998.

NAB told the accountability court that the assets of the accused were found disproportionate to his known sources of income and he could not reasonably account for them.

He maintained a standard of living beyond his known sources of income, NAB claimed.

A NAB spokesman said more references would be filed against top bureaucrats and armed forces personnel for their alleged involvement in corruption cases.