Financial irregularities worth Rs500 million have surfaced in the disbursement of KP Chief Minister Mehmood Khan’s discretionary funds.
According to credible sources, dubious payments worth hundreds of millions of rupees were detected during a probe.
Alleged expenditures worth Rs60 crores were made for
for “luxury” and “uncalled-for” purposes whereas more than Rs 1crore were paid for purchasing “gifts” and “entertainment” purposes.
A suspicious payment of more than Rs4.1m was made for telephone bills while an amount of Rs5.4m was paid in terms of transport expenditures.
Meanwhile, more Rs1.6m were paid for salaries of the staff.
Suspicious transactions were detected to have been made via the CM’s principal secretary’s office, sources claimed.
Sources also claimed that a dubious payment worth around Rs1.2m was made in the principal secretary’s office on expired CNICs. Subsequently, cellphone numbers were deleted permanently.
During 2019-20, a transaction of 14 crores was made via the then principal secretary’s office.
The amount was deposited in the Bank of Khyber whereas no receipt or voucher against the transaction was maintained.
Sources claimed that the list of the financial irregularities was long and a comprehensive probe into the matter was needed.