China-cutting: Two KDA directors among four arrested by NAB

Karachi
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested two directors and one additional director of the Karachi Development Authority (KDA) as it intensified its operations against land grabbers and culprits involved in China-cutting, according to a statement issued on Friday.
The bureau identified the suspects as former KDA director Abdul Qavi Khan, director KDA master plan Rashid Aqeel, and additional director Muhammad Nasir Sheikh, besides a private individual Anjum Jameel Siddiqui a day earlier on Thursday.
Initially, according to the statement, a joint investigation team comprising officials of NAB, Rangers and the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was set up to collaborate and share information about notorious land grabbers, and also initiate an inquiry against the mafia.
It was said the inquiry unearthed two prime movers of land grabbing scam, Muhammad Mujeebullah Siddiqui and Faisal Masroor Siddiqui, who were already in custody.
In lieu of the information provided by them and after collection of important documents and evidence, the role of four more facilitators came to light and they were duly arrested on Thursday.
The statement issued by NAB stated that the KDA directors and additional director were allegedly involved in illegal construction and sale/purchase of plots in a housing scheme named “University Hill Villas” located in Block 1 of Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Scheme-36 of KDA, and also on land reserved for water conduit and high-tension transmission of the K-Electric.
It was said interrogation of the accused will further reveal more suspects and the operation will gain more impetus.