LAHORE – National Accountability Bureau (NAB) sources have revealed thatthe top bureaucrat Ahad Cheema who was arrested on the corruption chargeshas spilled the beans in the corruption charges against him.

NAB has secured evidence from arrestedbureaucrat Ahad Cheema against anumber of other corrupt officers who too would be arrested soon, sources inthe national anti-graft body revealed.

The National Accountability Bureau had arrested the former LDA directorgeneral on Wednesday to probe him for alleged corruption in Ashiana Housingproject.

Well-placed sources in NAB said the bureau has now widened the scope of itsinvestigation as investigators have succeeded in securing vital informationon corruption in different other public sector departments also.

The government in recent years introduced several development projectsand AhadCheema have had a key role in several energy and public serviceprojects of Punjab government – including the popular metro-bus and speedobus services. Cheema , a grade-20 officer of Pakistan AdministrativeService or PAS, the erstwhile district management group, is presently theCEO of Quaid-i-Azam Thermal Power Company (QATPC) owned by the Punjabgovernment.

He is among the several top babus who were promoted to the next grade onThursday.

A NAB official said Ahad Cheema was being treated like an ordinary accusedand he has not been given any special facility. “We prepare special foodfor all of the accused detained in NAB lockup and no food from the outsideis allowed to any detainee,” the official said.

He said Cheema behaved rudely when he was served the summons and also atthe time of his arrest – when he even put up some resistance, but now hisarrogance has vanished to a great extent.

Ahad Cheema has served as the district coordination officer (DCO) ofLahore, Higher Education secretary and twice as LDA chief.