NAB to file reference against DC Shangla for embezzling flood-aid

References will also be filed against Director PDA, PSO and Customs Department

PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau [NAB] is set to file a reference against the Deputy Commissioner of Shangla for embezzlement of Rs123.8 million from aid allocated for the flood-affected district in 2016.

The decision was made on Saturday during Regional Board Meeting [RBM] of NAB - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, chaired by Brig [retd] Farooq Naser Awan in Peshawar and attended by directors, additional directors, case officers, senior legal consultants and other concerned officers.



The inquiry revealed that Deputy Commissioner Shangla, Deldar Danish abused authority by allowing agencies to select contractors without advertisement and disbursed funds without formalities. The flow of funds suggested that TMO and Tehsil Nazims were executors, monitors, contractors and distrbutors of funds at the same time.

Those named in the reference were also found to have been involved in the embezzlement of funds for the rehabilitation of infrastructure damaged in the same time period.

Another two references were approved by the board including one against Director Peshawar Development Authority [PDA] Aminud Din for the accumulation of assets beyond known sources of income.

Details of the assets,, worth Rs64, 690 million, include market shops, warehouse in Peshawar, five-marla plot in Ajab Khan Town, one-kanal  plot in Hayatabad, two five-marla houses in Hayatabad, one-kanal bungalow in Hayatabad, one-kanal plot in Regi Model Town, five-marla house at Ring Road, a commercial unit in Markaz, Islamabad, a house on GT Road and investments in M/s Muhammad Tariq Trading Company & Fabrics Business at Dubai (UAE), Paradise Silk Centre, Sumbal Arcade in Saddar, Peshawar and Investment in M/s IP Traders in Nowshera.



A reference against DG PDA Saleem Ahmad Watoo was recently taken up by the Peshawar High Court [PHC].

A second reference on the misuse of authority was approved against officers and officials of Pakistan State Oil Company Limited [PSO], Customs Department and others in the export of petroleum tankers to Afghanistan via Torkham border. Around 55 fake consignments of POL products were listed as sold in the local market causing a loss of RS23, 040m to the national exchequer.