PESHAWAR: The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has arrested a former executive engineer of Pak PWD (Public Works Department), Pervez Khan, on the charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. He is presently posted as director technical in the Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation, Islamabad.

The suspect was produced before an accountability court which remanded him to the custody of NAB for 10 days. Judge Tariq Yousafzai directed that the suspect should be produced on Sept 5 again. According to NAB, an inquiry was authorised to collect requisite evidence regarding moveable and immoveable properties owned, controlled and possessed by the suspect in his own name and in the name of his dependents.

NAB prosecutor Danyal Chamkani stated that during the inquiry it was revealed that the suspect during his service in PWD and on deputation in the C&W Department had allegedly accumulated huge assets beyond known sources of his income.

The alleged assets of the suspect include 272-kanal land at Tangi, Charssada; another 4.4 kanals at Tangi; a kanal plot and another 10-marla plot in Islamabad; a plot measuring 35x70 square feet at Sector G-13/1, Islamabad; plot no 35 at PWD Society, Rawaat, Islamabad; another precious plot at G-13/1 North Avenue, Islamabad; a house at G-13/1, Islamabad; 10-marla house at Barrian, Abbottabad; a house at Phase-2 Hayatabad, Peshawar; a house at Professors Colony, Peshawar; and another house at G-4 Phase-2, Hayatabad, Peshawar.

The NAB alleged that the suspect also owned expensive marble mines in Mohmand Agency besides huge unexplained transactions in the bank accounts.