The regional board of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Sunday said it has initiated corruption inquiries against officials of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Tourism Corporation Department.
The decision came during a provincial board meeting chaired by DG NAB Peshawar Farmanullah Khan and attended by directors, deputy prosecutor general, case officers and other officials concerned, according to a statement issued after the meeting.
The investigations were launched after allegations of illegal appointments in the department surfaced. The regional board has authorized inquiry against a female district education officer in Dera Ismail Khan and an administrative officer in Nowshera. The board has also approved supplementary references pertaining to assets beyond means against Umar Hayat, senior auditor and district account officer of Shangla.
In March, the provincial chapter of the apex anti-corruption watchdog said that it will launch an inquiry against employees of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Secretariat, officials of the revenue department and a senior engineer at the Cantonment Board of Peshawar.
The board authorized an inquiry against employees of the Health Services Directorate under the FATA Secretariat and others for allegedly embezzling funds worth millions of rupees from the polio vaccination projects in the tribal areas.
Published in Daily Times, April 23rd 2018.
