PHOTO: National Accountability Bureau
National Accountability Bureau Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa arrested special assistant to former chief minister Syed Masoom Shah alias SMS on charges of corruption.
According to a handout issued on Tuesday, during the course of enquiry it was revealed the accused accumulated assets beyond known sources of income. SMS served as Shabqadar nazim from 2001 to 2005 and as the special assistant to former CM Amir Haider Hoti between 2010 and 2013.
Shah has been accused of accepting bribes and misusing his political status.
It has been revealed that the accused accumulated money and property over and beyond what he could afford through his legal sources of income. The accumulated wealth includes, a house and a hujra of a land of 12 kanals in his village in Battagram district, two plots in Hayatabad, two plots in Regi Model Town, the same number of plots in Defence Housing Authority in Karachi, one house each in Rawalpindi and Peshawar and some more land in various areas of Peshawar.
Moreover, Shah possessed a huge bank balance in local and foreign banks and owned expensive vehicles.
He will be produced before an accountability court to obtain a physical remand. However, no statement has yet been received from Awami National Party.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 12th, 2015.
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