One arrested in pension scam: NAB

18 Jun, 2015

ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) on Thursday arrested Habib-ur-Rehman (absconder), a private person in pension scam of Education Department.

The accused person allegedly posed himself as fictitious teacher with assumed name of Muhammad Farooq and provided his photographs and signed/affixed his thumb impression on pension payment order and looted millions of rupees from national exchequer in league with others.

During course of inquiry, it was revealed that accused with the help of forged and fictitious signatures prepared fake pension documents and hence in connivance with officials of AGPR, Peshawar withdrawn pensions from public exchequer.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2015

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