Con men: NAB arrests impersonators

The group of impersonators was involved in cheating and blackmailing people, pretending to be NAB’s investigation team

PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau’s (NAB) Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa intelligence team has arrested a group of impersonators involved in cheating and blackmailing people, pretending to be NAB’s investigation team. According to a press release of the bureau, the main culprit was Arif Khan, a retired major of the armed the Pakistan Army, who introduced himself as a major in the NAB. Khan and his accomplices had conned a number of people but were finally apprehended last Friday, when they went to a man’s residence in Charsadda and showed him fake files regarding an inquiry initiated against him by the NAB for making assets through illegal means and asking him to either face detention or pay them.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 28^th,  2011.