Misappropriation of funds: Five officers, including SIs, suspended

Some of the embezzled amount has been recovered.

FAISALABAD:

Five officers, including three former officers in charge of the Police Welfare Petrol Pump, were suspended from service on Monday for alleged embezzlement of funds.

The suspension orders were issued by the city police officer after the officers were found guilty by a probe committee.

The officers were identified as Assistant Sub Inspectors Bashir Ahmad, Muneer Ahmad and Qasim Ali of Police Welfare Petrol Pump on Sargodha Road.

The city police officer also ordered for registration of criminal cases against them along with former accountant at the CPO office, Ghulam Shabbir, and former cash clerk Sub Inspector Muhammad Shabbir, for their involvement in the misappropriation.

The notice was taken on the complaint by Sub Inspector Muhammad Fayyaz, who was appointed as the in charge at the Police Welfare Petrol Pump in August 2010 and found misappropriation of Rs4.96 million in the pump funds.

An inquiry was ordered by Superintendents (Administration) Athar Waheed and Imran Kishwar in the same month. Another inquiry followed in 2011 on the directions of Regional Police Officer Aftab Ahmad Cheema. Probe findings and committee report, submitted to the CPO last week, held the five officers guilty.

Warnings were issued to the police officers and four of them deposited some of the embezzlement amount. Muneer Ahmed deposited Rs0.45 million, Bashir Ahmad Rs0.54 million, Ali Rs0.68 million and Shabbir Rs2.08 million. Some Rs1.25 million is still unrecovered.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 3^rd, 2012.