PESHAWAR: The accountability court in Peshawar rejected the bail application of Gul Rehman, the main accused in the Upper Kohistan scandal, and ordered send him to Jail.
The accountability court heard the bail application of Gul Rehman, the main accused in the Upper Kohistan scandal and the cashier of the National Bank Dasu branch. The NAB prosecutor took the position that the accused Gul Rehman, along with his brother Muhammad Nawaz and his accomplice Muhammad Yahya, made illegal transactions and transferred money from the national treasury to private accounts by issuing checks without verification. According to the prosecutor, Gul Rehman’s role in this scandal was very important and he made transactions of Rs 361 million in specific accounts. The NAB team conducted an operation in Abbottabad yesterday and made an arrest in a corruption case of more than Rs 36 billion from a government account.
In this operation, Rs 200 million was recovered from her house on the identification of the female accused, who was the wife of Qaiser Iqbal, the main accused in the scandal. NAB had arrested Qaiser Iqbal, an employee of the C&W department, and his wife from Abbottabad and both the husband and wife are currently in NAB custody on physical remand from the court.
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