PESHAWAR:
An accountability court on Friday remanded Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s former mineral minister Mehmood Zeb and nine others over illegal allotment of government reservoirs of phosphate in the province, in the custody of National Accountability Bureau for 12 days, sources claimed.
PPP’s former provincial minister Mehmood Zeb and others were presented before the court amid security.
NAB officials had requested a 15 day remand of the suspects, on charges of misuse of authority and other corruptions.
The NAB Khyber Pakhtunkhwa alleges that Mahmood Zeb, who was a leader of PPP and was provincial minister for technical education, industries and mineral department in the previous provincial government, in connivance with the other nine suspects had misused his authority in illegal allotment of 500 acres of proven deposit of phosphate to a female school teacher, Rukhsana Javed, who illegally excavated phosphate in collaboration with the first cousin of the minister Ehtishamul Mulk and jointly caused a loss of Rs360 million to the national exchequer, sources privy to the case stated.