LAKKI MARWAT, March 17: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday arrested Ajmal Khan Meenakhel, a senior clerk in the health department, Lakki, on charges of corruption and accumulating assets disproportional to his known income.

Well-informed sources said that a special team of the NAB had come to the district to carry out the operation and ensure the arrest of the health department employee.

“Ajmal Khan was presently serving as a senior clerk in the newly-established district headquarters hospital situated near Tajazai,” sources said. They alleged that the clerk during his posting as accountant in the office of the district health officer indulged in corruption, malpractices and embezzlement of government funds.

They further said that the NAB launched a comprehensive probe into his illegally-accumulated wealth and other assets and at the conclusion of the investigation arrested him from his relative’s house in the Michenkhel locality of Lakki city.

“Local police helped NAB officials in the action,” the sources said. Mir Meenakhel was latter taken to Peshawar.