PESHAWAR: The remand of former inspector general of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police, Malik Naveed, who is accused of corruption in the mega weapon scam case, was extended for 10 days on Wednesday by an accountability court in order to give investigators more time to complete their probe into the incident.

The former provincial police chief was presented before the Accountability Court No 1 of Walayat Khan after 14-day of physical custody by the NAB.

The NAB prosecutor Lajbar Khan sought 14 days remand of the accused from the court, pleading the NAB had not completed its probe yet and would need more time to investigate the mega scam.

Malik Naveed’s counsel Barrister Zahoor Ahmed contended that his client was a heart patient and needed proper medical attention for which facilities were not available with the NAB so he should not be remanded further.

The Accountability Court Judge, Walyat Khan after hearing the argument remanded Malik Naveed for ten more days to the NAB for further investigation.

Malik Naveed was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on November 20 on charges of receiving kickbacks in the multi-billion rupees procurement of weapons, equipment and vehicles for the provincial police department.

An earlier NAB release had said that the inquiry committee, after a probe, had found that gross violation of procurement rules were committed by the purchase committee in awarding tenders to favoured contractors who had no previous experience of supplying weapons and security equipment.

The NAB inquiry has also revealed that a number of KP police officers and officials were allegedly involved in massive corruption and irregularities in the 2008-09 procurement by violating government rules and thus causing huge loss to the exchequer.

Earlier NAB had also arrested budget officer Javed Khan and the supplier Arshad Majeed in the scam.

The contractor Arshad Majeed had turned approver in the case and had told the court about the alleged kickbacks received by various government functionaries in the case.

NAB has also recovered about R6 crore and weapons from the house of budget officer Javed Khan after his arrest.

Moreover a colonel and three majors of the Pakistan Army were sacked from military service after it emerged that they had accepted kickbacks while inspecting arms purchased by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government for the police in 2010.