Blackmailing charges: NAB arrests impersonator
The accused used to threaten the officials that he will implicate them in cases of corruption
The accused used to threaten the officials that he will implicate them in cases of corruption. PHOTO: EXPRESS
SUKKUR:
The intelligence wing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sukkur, arrested on Sunday, a suspect who was allegedly impersonating a NAB officer and blackmailing others. The bureau received a complaint that a man, identified as Ghulam Rasool Phulpoto, was blackmailing accused officials and witnesses and extorting money from them. Acting on this, a NAB team arrested the suspect while he was meeting an officer. A case has been registered and the suspect was handed over to the Abad police station, said the NAB spokesperson. The spokesperson told The Express Tribune that the suspect was involved in black mailing deputy commissioners, SSPs, district accounts officers, National Bank of Pakistan officials and district education officers, among others. He mentioned that the accused used to threaten the officials that he will implicate them in cases of corruption and allegedly extorted money from them.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2016.
The intelligence wing of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sukkur, arrested on Sunday, a suspect who was allegedly impersonating a NAB officer and blackmailing others. The bureau received a complaint that a man, identified as Ghulam Rasool Phulpoto, was blackmailing accused officials and witnesses and extorting money from them. Acting on this, a NAB team arrested the suspect while he was meeting an officer. A case has been registered and the suspect was handed over to the Abad police station, said the NAB spokesperson. The spokesperson told The Express Tribune that the suspect was involved in black mailing deputy commissioners, SSPs, district accounts officers, National Bank of Pakistan officials and district education officers, among others. He mentioned that the accused used to threaten the officials that he will implicate them in cases of corruption and allegedly extorted money from them.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 10th, 2016.