ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) will carry out an investigation against MNA and former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti for allegedly amassing assets beyond his known sources of income.

The decision was taken on Thursday at a meeting of the NAB executive board presided over by the bureau’s Chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry.

“An inquiry was authorised against Ameer Haider Hoti, who is accused of accumulating assets beyond his known sources of income,” the NAB spokesman said.

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The bureau also authorised an investigation against the management of K-Electric for illegally collecting over Rs22 billion from 23 million consumers of Karachi and Balochistan in violation of an order of the National Electric Power Regulatory Authority as well as mis-declaration of revenue collection to the tune of Rs213bn.

The NAB board decided to file a corruption reference against Intikhab Alam Syed and others for wilfully defaulting on a bank loan of Rs366.6 million.

The bureau decided to file three supplementary corruption references.

The first one is against Javed Iqbal Abbasi, the proprietor of the Javed Enterprises, and others. They are accused of embezzling government funds through fraudulent actions and receiving Rs73.6m.

The second reference is against Mir Shah Jehan Khetran, former managing director of the Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation, and others for illegally leasing out PTDC land in a non-transparent manner and causing a loss of Rs19.15m to the national exchequer. 

The third reference is against Islamabad Electric Supply Company’s Chief Executive Officer Javed Pervez and its Finance Director Najam Javed, former president of the Trust Investment Bank Limited Asif Kamal and others. They are accused of misusing authority and purchasing benami assets, causing a loss of Rs81m to the exchequer.

An inquiry was authorised against Syed Mohammad Tariq Qadri, former district chief election commissioner, and Bushra Khalid, a school teacher, of Dera Ghazi Khan for misuse of authority and accumulation of assets beyond known sources of income.

NAB decided to re-authorise two inquiries — one against the Karachi Port Trust officials and others for awarding and execution of contract for dredging and reclamation works to M/s China International Water & Electric Corp in violation of rules, causing a loss of Rs224m to the national kitty.

The second inquiry is against officials of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa health department — Mohammad Ishfaq, Sharif Ahmed, Mohammad Ali Chauhan and others.

They are accused of supplying substandard interferon injections for the Hepatitis Control Programme and misappropriating funds in the purchase of the injections, thus causing a loss of Rs244.9m to the exchequer.

The NAB board decided to close an inquiry against Zahid Pervaiz, former medical superintendent of the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, due to lack of incriminating evidence.

The bureau decided to refer a case involving Chaudhry Rasheed Ahmad, former chairman of the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, and others to the Federal Investigation Agency for including it in another inquiry being conducted by the agency. The case relates to corruption and misuse of authority.

The board also referred a tax evasion case to the Federal Board of Revenue and sought a report on it.

Published in Dawn, November 20th, 2015