PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Thursday remanded the director of Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Dr Imdadullah in the custody of National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for eight days in a case of alleged embezzlement of Rs12.49 million funds.

Accountability Court’s judge Mohammad Ibrahim Khan directed that the suspect should be produced before the court again on June 26. A NAB prosecutor stated before the court that the suspect was arrested a day earlier. He said that during an inquiry it was revealed that Dr Imdadullah deliberately maintained the cashbook entries in a manner that cheques for huge amounts were not entered into it.

The NAB has alleged that those cheques were issued in his names and that of two clerks, Arif Ismail and Mohammad Ali, and the same amounts were then cashed by them. The NAB has already arrested the two clerks.

In another case, an Ehtesab Court on Thursday remanded three officials, including the director general of Mines and Mineral Development Department, a deputy director of EPI, and a clerk of health department, in the custody of KP Ehtesab Commission for 14 days each.

The court of judge Subhan Sher Khan ordered that the three suspects should be produced again on July 1. Two additional deputy prosecutors general, Barrister Qazi Babar Irshad and Lajbar Khan, appeared before the court along with the suspects and stated that they were involved in different cases of corruption.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2015

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