GUJRAT: Two senior officers of Gujranwala Electric Power Company (Gepco), Gujrat office, have been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency for being involved in Rs10 million corruption.

Official sources said the FIA Gujrat circle had arrested Gepco`s executive engineer Athar Shahzad and accounts officer Raheel Mirza for illegally withdrawing a sum of Rs10m from the official account of grid stations in Gujrat and Sialkot.

A spokesman for FIA said a case had been lodged against the officials of Gepco on the charges of their alleged corruption as raids were being conducted for the arrest of remaining sus-pects in the case.

He said a team had been constituted to conduct investigation.

Meanwhile, the FIA Gujranwala region claimed to have arrested a fugitive wanted in a fraud with a citizen regarding the human trafficking from Sambrial town of Sialkot district.

Suspect Javed Iqbal had been included in the list of most wanted fugitives to FIA Gujranwala in the year 2023; however he disappeared after committing a fraud with a local.

The FIA official said the suspect had received a sum of Rs690,000 from a citizen for sending him toCanadabuthenedand neither returned the sum nor sent the client to abroad after which a formal complaint was lodged against him last year.