Times of Islamabad

NAB arrests senior Punjab Police officer over Rs 55 crore funds corruption

NAB arrests senior Punjab Police officer over Rs 55 crore funds corruption

*LAHORE – The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has made a key arrestof a senior officer of the Punjab Police.*

According to the NAB’s spokesperson, former district police officer (DPO)Gujrat Kamran Mumtaz was arrested over graft charges in the police funds.

“Kamran Mumtaz remained DPO Gujrat from 2015 to 2016, when the megacorruption case in the police funds surfaced,” the NAB’s spokesman said.

The former DPO is accused of embezzlement of Rs 550 millions in the policefunds, through bogus petrol billing, fake allowances.

The accused will be presented in the court for a physical remand tomorrow,the spokesperson of the anti-graft watchdog said.

The accountability watchdog, on December 1 last year, had arrested SSP RaiEjaz in the same case.

The Sindh police’s top cop was detained from Shahrahe Faisal area of themetropolis.