PESHAWAR, July 28: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has arrested four persons on charges of taking bribes from truck drivers travelling to Afghanistan and the tribal areas.

The arrested persons included a junior clerk of the food department Momin Khan posted at a checkpoint on the Peshawar-Torkham Hhighway, head constable Shoukat Kamal, Abdul Ghaffar and Qalander Khan.

The accused were produced before an accountability court presided over by Mr Khalid Badshah on Saturday and were remanded into NAB custody for 14 days. The court directed officials to produce the accused again on August 10.

NAB claimed that they had information that some officials in connivance with some people had been taking bribes from truck drivers on the Peshawar-Torkham Highway at the border between Peshawar and Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency.

The bureau deputed officials in plainclothes on the spot and an official along with a magistrate boarded a truck as ordinary civilians. The accused persons allegedly then asked the officials to pay them money for allowing them to cross over to the tribal area. The officials handed over marked currency notes to them which were recovered by NAB officials on their arrest.