PESHAWAR: An accountability court has granted 15 days physical remand of the former Elementary Education Foundation chief and other suspects to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission in a Rs80 million corruption case.

According to a KPEC statement issued here, former EEF managing director Ahmad Khan, budget and account officer Mohammad Ali and driver Faheem were produced in the accountability court on Wednesday.

Investigation officer Mohammad Tariq and special prosecutor Mohammad Farooq Shah requested judge Subhan Sher for the custody of suspects for investigation. The court granted 15 days physical remand of the suspects to the KPEC.

The suspects were arrested on the charge of embezzling Rs80 million from the EEF funds.

ARRESTS: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has arrested property dealer Syed Ijaz Hussain Shah on the charge of cheating the public at large and depriving them of Rs114.25 million.

According to a statement issued here on Thursday, the NAB had received complaints against the suspect and initiated inquiry against him and his suspected accomplices.

The inquiry revealed the suspects had sold the land of low value to the innocent people at exorbitant rates fraudulently.

Also, they forged ownership documents of the land not owned by them and thus, cheating buyers on one hand and depriving the actual owners of their land on the other. In this way, they cheated the public at large and looted Rs114.25 million.

The NAB has already arrested suspects Bostan Khan, Mehtab Ali Qureshi, Malik Habib, Adil Shaukat alias Adil Kayani of Rawalpindi in the case.

The suspect will be produced before the accountability court for physical remand.

The NAB asked the people having any claims against suspects to submit the relevant documents to it for examination.

Published in Dawn, August 26th, 2016