Acting on public complaint, Peshawar National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested four people for substandard supplies to Workers Welfare Board (WWB) caused a loss of billions of rupees to the national treasury.
Those arrested included owner of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Education Resource Point Muhammad Ashraf, chiefs of Haq Nawaz Traders and Oxon Academic Qari Muhammad Iftikhar, Qari Publisher’s Muhammad Ahsan Islam, Niaz Ahmad of Iqra Traders and Mesh Trading Service, and the owner of Book Point.
According to NAB, the arrested suspects acting in league were supplying substandard and inferior materials to the board. These materials included diaries, registers, result cards, textbooks, syllabus books, stationary items, sports goods, PVC pipes, tube lights, welding materials, micrometre, fibre optics parts and historical religious and library books.
The arrested suspects managed to get numerous contracts with the collaboration of high authorities of the board in violations of Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules. WWB Secretary Tariq Awan is already in NAB custody over this corruption.
Investigations of scholarship fraud in the Board by NAB are under way. NAB authorities say that arrested suspects will be produce in the Accountability Court where they would be asked for physical remand.
