MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 16: The AJK Ehtesab Bureau has not found any proof after investigations into complaints of corruption against some key politicians of Azad Kashmir, bureau’s acting chairman Brig Saad Mohammad said here on Wednesday.

Speaking at a news conference at his office, he said the bureau was an autonomous and impartial organization which worked in close coordination with all other departments of Azad Kashmir and dealt with all cases on merit.

“We strictly forbid harassment and highhandedness and take action after careful investigations into the alleged acts of corruption,” he said.

He said those government employees, who were discharging their duties on merit, should not be scared of the bureau but those who had misused their powers or committed corruption would not be spared.

“Our aim here is that not only should we prosecute the corrupt and those who misuse authority but also try to recover the looted funds and return the same to the government treasury,” he said.

The brigadier said no government functionary had approached the bureau to pursue cases based on malafide or initiate cases motivated by political or personal considerations.

The bureau, he claimed, was taking actions against every corrupt person without any discrimination. “Neither any minister, nor any official, however senior he might be, is exempt from our inquiry and investigation.”

To a question about alleged corruption in Jagran hydel power project in Neelum valley, he said the bureau had obtained the cooperation of Wapda to detect corruption allegedly committed in that project.

“Investigations in that case have finished and the culprits will be arrested within three weeks,” he said.

The acting chairman said the cases during his tenure were almost based on the applications by the general public and regretted that no cases or references were sent by the government or pointed out by the press.

Responding to another question, he said, there was no pressure on him from any quarter regarding the accountability process “because he did not bow before such pressure.”

On the arrests of cooperative bank defaulters in Muzaffarabad and Rawalakot, he said, this process would shortly be stretched to other districts.