PESHAWAR, Sept 25: The National Accountability Bureau has filed a corruption reference in the accountability court here against a person charged with fraudulently withdrawing pension of his late father who was a former employee of the Hong Kong Police Department.

Mohammad Bashir has been charged with fraudulently withdrawing Rs717,000 from the account of his father, Abdul Rasheed, at the National Bank of Pakistan in Abbotabad.

The case was initiated by the Federal Investigation Agency against the accused. Later, when some wings of the FIA merged with the NAB the case was transferred to the bureau.

The prosecution claimed that Abdur Rasheed, resident of the Link Road, Abbottabad, an employee at the Hong Kong police department, died after retiring in 1991. It is alleged that the accused used to withdraw the pension money through fake signatures of his father from 1992 till 1999.

The prosecution claimed that after investigation the FIA came to know about the fraud and registered a case in 2004. The accused, Mohammad Bashir, was arrested but was later released on bail.

Protection sought: Inamul Haq, a resident of Khyber Town in Kambooh village, Peshawar, has denied that he has any link with Ayub Khan Afridi, wanted to the Anti-Narcotic Force, and appealed to the authorities to intervene and order an inquiry into ANF excess against him.

Speaking at a news conference here at the press club here on Monday, Mr Haq said that ANF staff raided his house in the Khyber Town and asked him to vacate the house. He said the ANF had been asked to seal the property and they had come to take the possession of house and agricultural land. Mr Haq said besides one shopping plaza and gas stations, he owned 88 kanals land. He said relevant government departments had issued him an NOC for installing two CNG stations and no government department had raised objection on his commercial concerns, but the ANF was trying to implicate him in the racket.