ISLAMABAD, May 9: Flexing its muscles, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday announced that a former army general allegedly involved in corrupt practices while holding key offices in the late 1980s had been detained in Bosnia with the help of Interpol.

Retired Lt Gen Zahid Ali Akbar, a former chairman of Wapda, was detained on charge of making Rs267 million assets beyond his known sources of income.

According to NAB spokesman Ramzan Sajid, the detention was made possible with the cooperation of international agencies and the government of Bosnia.

All legal formalities, he said, were being completed to bring him to Pakistan.

A reference against him has been pending since July 2006 before the Accountability Court in Lahore.

He was declared a proclaimed offender by the court on May 10, 2007.

Gen Akbar was made Wapda chairman by former military dictator Gen Zia-ul-Haq in 1987 and in 1992 he was appointed chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board.

“He remained involved in corrupt practices during his service in Wapda and the PCB,” the NAB spokesman said.

The NAB also claimed that it had traced 77 local and offshore bank accounts of Gen Akbar, his family members and business concerns.