KP’s Ehtesab Commission arrests senior auditor in corruption case

PESHAWAR: The Ehtesab Commission, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, arrested the senior auditor at the District Accounts Office in Shangla on Monday on charges of accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income.
A press release by the Ehtesab Commission said the senior auditor Umar Hayat, son of Musafar Khan, was arrested for accumulating assets, both movable and immovable, worth millions of rupees in his name and in the names of his beneficiaries.
It said the assets include plots of land, houses, a flat, insurance policies and unjustified bank transactions. The press release added that the accused would be produced in an Ehtesab Commission court to obtain his physical remand to conduct further investigation.
It was learnt that Umar Hayat, who is serving in the Shangla district, was arrested in Peshawar when he reached the Ehtesab Commission office. He had been summoned by the Ehtesab Commission in connection with the investigation into his assets. This is the third case in which the Ehtesab Commission, which was established in October 2014, has made arrests.
In the first case, it arrested five accused in a case of land grabbing of 150 kanal of government property worth Rs250 million in Jarma village in Kohat. Those arrested included the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MPA Gul Sahib Khan’s father Noor Daraz Khattak, who is the chief coordination officer in the District Council Kohat, a tehsildar Mohammad Ghulam, two patwaris Kamran and Daud and a civilian, Taj Mohammad.
Subsequently in the second case, one Sardar Ali, an assistant in the provincial Social Welfare Department, was arrested on charges of taking money to make appointments. He was produced in an accountability court, which remanded him on 15-day physical custody to the Ehtesab Commission.