PESHAWAR: The NAB has arrested five officials of Telephone Industries of Pakistan (TIP), Haripur, on corruption charges.

Those arrested include Syed Rizwan Mehmood company secretary, Tahir Jan general secretary, Mohammad Waseem deputy manager, Qazi Ibrar deputy manager and Zamruad Khan.

According to a statement issued here on Tuesday, the accused persons were involved in illegal allotment of plots in TIP housing scheme, causing a loss of Rs360 million to exchequer.

It said that the TIP cooperative housing society was built on around 1,025 kanal of land with approved master plan.

The plots were allotted to TIP employees from 1991-2001 through power of attorney awarded to chairman TIP housing scheme by the general manger of TIP.

It was stated that Syed Mohammad Hussain Shah, chairman TIP, in connivance with the committee members illegally changed the master plan without the approval of the competent authority, illegitimately converted amenity sites into residential plots of different sizes, and issued illegally 145 allotment letters. It is to mention here that the main accused, Syed Mohammad Hussain Shah, has already been arrested in the case. The accused will be presented in the accountability court for obtaining their physical remand, said the statement.

Published in Dawn, January 18th, 2017