Court awards 14-day remand of four officials

An Accountability Court of Karachi granted 14 days remand of four accused of city district administration on Friday.

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Karachi, had arrested four accused persons namely Rehmatullah Memon, Ex-TMO, Zahoor Ahmed Shahani, TMO (Current), Idrees Memon, Engineer of Town Municipal Authority, Sehwan and Mumtaz Ali Zardari, Ex-TMO Sujawal on Thursday.

The detainees are allegedly involved in corruption of millions of rupees which they committed through withdrawal of illegal cheques and issued huge amounts to fake contractors/parties. They falsified accounts, made fake purchases, salaries to ghost employees were paid and no work was done on any scheme and the budget was allegedly embezzled.