ISLAMABAD – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has made a highprofile arrest of a former top bureaucrat in a mega corruption case.

NAB has arrested former chairman of the Capital Development Authority (CDA)Imtiaz Inayat Elahi and finance member Saeed-ur-Rehman on Tuesday.

According to the graft-buster, the two former bureaucrats have been nabbedon charges of misuse of authority during the construction of theShakarparian Complex in Islamabad and inflicting damage to the nationalexchequer.

Imtiaz Inayat Elahi holds a decades-long career as a civil servant. Heserved as the CDA chairman from June 24, 2009 to December 9, 2011, afterwhich he was posted as the secretary of the Capital Administration andDevelopment Division.

Moreover, Elahi also served as the additional secretary in the Ministry ofEnvironment, Ministry of Health, twice as the Islamabad deputy commissionerfrom 1989 to 1992 and 1996 to 1997.

The former CDA chief also performed duties as the commercial counselor,Pakistan High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and in CDA as directorgeneral (Environment).