*ISLAMABAD: *The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday arrestedformer additional director of the National Testing Service (NTS) TahirMaqbool Khakwani for his involvement in corruption and corrupt practices.

The accused along with some other officials are involved in malaadministration and financial irregularities that caused loss of over Rs158million to the organisation and ruined the future of hundreds of candidates.

The accused with the connivance of former chief executive officer (CEO) ofNTS Haroon Rashid recruited fake consultants through regional heads andmisappropriated money running into millions of rupees from the NTS funds.

He is also accused of manipulating the payments of false claims offactitious consultancy through bank cheques and proceeds of these chequeswere received in cash by the accused persons for their personal uses.

According to NAB, during the course of inquiry it was revealed thatKhakwani with the connivance of his accomplice manipulated the payment offalse claims through cheques issued in the name of false consultants.