NAB arrests two POs in fraud case

LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Lahore Tuesday arrested two Proclaimed Offenders (POs) for their alleged involvement in Rs25 million embezzlement case.

The accused persons were identified as Ghulam Rasool and Abdul Ghafoor. According to a National Accountability Bureau spokesman, both the accused persons, in connivance with Amjad Sandal, Land Acquisition Collector (LAC), Dera Ghazi Khan, managed to sell and purchase land on bogus documents pertaining to fraudulently shown extended land area. Whereas, he said, physical existence of the actual land was far more less than the one exaggerated on documents which caused a loss of Rs25 million to government exchequer.

The spokesman said, in 2002, National Accountability Bureau Lahore filed corruption reference against the main accused Land Acquisition Collector Amjad Sandal and others where the accused was convicted for seven-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs6.7 million was imposed on him.

Moreover, he added, both the arrested accused were declared POs in the same verdict. On an intelligence report, National Accountability Bureau officials raided Dera Ghazi Khan and managed to arrest both POs Ghulam Rasool and Abdul Ghafoor and produced them before Accountability Court.   A physical remand of the accused persons has been acquired until 17th of August (tomorrow).