Seized and returned: NAB disburses recovered funds

PESHAWAR: The head of the National Accountability Bureau in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Shahzad Saleem, on Friday handed over cheques of recovered money amounting to Rs8.2 million to the departments concerned. A cheque of Rs4.5 million was handed over to Peshawar Development Authority director Pervez Alam. The amount was recovered from officials of PDA in a case regarding illegal allotment of a plot near Bagh-e-Naran Sport Complex, Hayatabad Peshawar. An amount of Rs3.3 million was handed over to Bannu Development Authority director Zafarullah Khan. The amount was recovered from officers of BDA regarding sub-standard developmental works during 2011-12. A cheque of Rs0.366 million was handed over to Additional Commissioner of Inland Revenue Service RTO Abbottabad Mumtaz Ahmad. The amount was recovered from officials of Income Tax Department, Abbottabad.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2015.