PESHAWAR, May 21: A former commissioner of Income Tax and an officer on special duty in the Central Board of Revenue, Abdul Ali Khan, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on Monday on corruption charges.

The accused was produced before an accountability court presided over by Syed Yahya Zahid Gillani on Tuesday, which remanded him in the custody of NAB for 15 days.

He told the newsmen that he was innocent and was never involved in corruption. He claimed that the properties mentioned by the NAB did not belong to him and in fact those were owned by his brother.

The NAB has claimed that Abdul Ali Khan, resident of Ghaznikhel Lakki Marwat belonged to a middle class family and his father was a school teacher. At the initial stage of investigation his overall financial worth has been assessed to be approximately over Rs18 million based on possession of agriculture land and plots in posh areas of Peshawar and Islamabad.

According to the NAB the assets of the accused include: 102 kanal 4 marlas land at Ratha Kuladin, Dera Ismail Khan; 40 kanal 14 marla land at Shor Kot; 3 kanal 7 marlas land in Lakki Marwat; one kanal plot in Hayatabad; one kanal plot at Regi Lalma Township, a plot measuring 355.55 square yards in Islamabad; another plot in Islamabad; and, possesses shares in Bannu Woolen Mills and Lucky Cement Factory.

He is also accused of whitening his black money by establishing a fake firm at Peshawar showing his wife as a partner on equal share basis.