PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ehtesab Commission has arrested a senior auditor of the District Accounts Office Shangla on charge of amassing illegal wealth.

The suspect, Umar Hayat, was produced before an ehtesab court headed by judge Subhan Sher Khan on Tuesday.

The court remanded him in the custody of the commission for 12 days and ordered his production before it on May 23.

Deputy additional prosecutor general of the commission Lajbar Khan told the court that the suspect had assets disproportionate to his l
`He`s accumulated assets, both movable and immovable, in his name as well as that of his beneficiaries,` he said.

The prosecutor said the suspect had plots, houses, a flat, insurance policies and unjustified bank transactions.

OFFICIAL CHARGED: The commission also charged the chief coordinating officer of Kohat district council, Noor Daraz Khattak, who is already under arrest, in another case of corruption.

The case is about illegal appointments and award of contracts by the suspect to his blue-eyed people during his service in Town I and Town III of Peshawar.

The suspect, who is father of PTI MPA Gul Sahib Khattak, was arrested on April 17 along with four other officials on the charge of grabbing the Rs250 million government land.

Four other suspects in the case are tehsildar Mohammad Ghulam, patwari Kamran, girdawar Daud Khan and a beneficiary of the corruption Taj Mohammad.

The commission alleged that during inquiry it surfaced that the suspect Noor Daraz, who was tehsil municipal officer at Kohat in 2014, in connivance with the other suspects had fraudulently transferred government land to different persons in Jarma area.

It also alleged that total land grabbed by suspects measured over 150 kanals and was valued at Rs250 million.

Since their arrest, the suspects had been in custody of the Ehtesab Commission.

After completion of physical custody, they were produced before an Ehtesab court headed by judge Hayat Ali Shah.

Deputy additional prosecutor general of the commission Qazi Babar Irshad told the court that the prime suspect, Noor Daraz, had also been charged in another case with illegally awarding contracts during his tenure as town municipal officer in Town I and Town III in Peshawar and making illegal appointments.

He added that the suspect had caused a loss of around Rs80 million to the exchequer.

The court remanded Noor Daraz to the custody of the commission for 14 days whereas the other four suspects were sent to prison on judicial remand.