HYDERABAD: Imdad Memon, a BS-20 officer and Director General (Finance & Cooperation) of the Agriculture Department, and six other accused people were taken into custody on Tuesday after the Sindh High Court did not confirm the pre-arrest bail they had been granted previously.
In order to get their bail approved, they went before the SHC division bench, which included Justices Amjad Ali Sahito and Khadim Hussain Soomro.
However, their interim bail order was revoked, and the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) took them into custody on the court premises.
The accused face a NAB reference regarding the alleged misappropriation of Rs1.2 billion intended for the purchase of bulldozer spare parts.
Jangu Khan, DG Imdad Memon, contractors Anoop Kumar, Shafi Mohammad, and Mohammad Iqbal, and NAB Prosecutor Jangu Khan; Official of Hyderabad’s District Accounts Office, Nazeer Bhutto; and bank cashiers Gul Mohammad and Qadir Bux were taken into custody in court as soon as the bench gave the short order.
As the SHC rejects the accused’s request for confirmation of pre-arrest bail, the accused is escorted to Nara jail. The bench rejected the bail through an order, with reasons to be recorded later.
He went on to say that the accused were moved to the Nara jail.
According to the prosecutor, the accountability court’s reference lists 15 of the accused.
The reference says that fake vouchers given to fictitious businesses were used to steal Rs1.2 billion. During the hearing of their plea in the Sindh High Court on October 24, the accused received pre-arrested bail.
As per Catch, its examination had uncovered that Imdad Memon was engaged with misappropriation of millions of rupees during his residency as chief in the Horticultural Designing and Water The executives (AEWM) division.
NAB asserted that in cooperation with Imdad Memon, he had authorized fictitious refund bills totaling Rs250 million in favor of private contractors. These bills were paid for by officers of the Hyderabad District Accounts Office (DAO) out of pension funds.
The investigation revealed that the majority of bills were deposited in Director AE&WM’s official accounts, where they were withdrawn via signed checks. This account had about Rs1.2 billion withdrawn from it. Millions of rupees from the accounts of private contractors were credited to Imdad Memon’s personal bank accounts.
The money trail of payments, according to NAB, demonstrates that vouchers were withdrawn from the accounts of the agriculture department after being deposited in the accounts of fictitious businesses.
The Grab examination likewise uncovered that the horticulture division kept a record in a confidential bank which had credit exchanges of Rs1.2bn. According to company owners’ banking records, millions of rupees from government funds were credited to their accounts. NAB stated that the accused were also recipients of pension payments in the current case.
