ISLAMABAD: Police officer, Kashif Alam, who has been accused of a multi-billion rupee scam in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) was recently appointed deputy inspector general (DIG) in the Islamabad Police.
The officer took charge of his duty on Thursday. He is one of the several police officers accused by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) of Rs2.03 billion scam during the procurement of weapons for K-P Police in 2008-2010.
In a reference filed by NAB in accountability court in Peshawar in 2014, authorities had nominated former K-P inspector general of police (IGP) Malik Naveed along with then-Frontier Constabulary commandant Abdul Majeed Khan, former additional IGP (operations) Abdul Latif Khan, DIG Sajid Ali Khan, the then DIG headquarters Muhammad Suleman Khan, former K-P Police budget officer of Javed Khan, then-AIG Kashif Alam, former telecommunications DIG Sadiq Kamal Orakzai, as well as Raza Ali Khan, a relative of former chief minister Amir Haider Hoti and Hoti’s brother Amir Ghazan Hoti in the scam.
According to the reference which was filed, Rs7 billion contract for purchasing weapons and other equipment for K-P Police in 2008-2010, Rs2.03 billion was misappropriated.
NAB said that the contract was awarded to a firm which had no previous experience in supplying weapons and related equipment. The anti-graft body also said that the contractor influenced the process of competition of bids to get the contract.
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