KARACHI: Federal government has launched interrogation of about a dozen police officers including the former police chief of Sindh province for their alleged involvement in financial embezzlement, selling police jobs and criminal activities, a senior official said on Friday.
Chief secretary of Sindh province Rizwan Memon Friday appeared in a two-member Supreme Court bench to update it about the progress on the corrupt police officers case in the province.
He told the court formal investigation had been initiated against the former inspector general of police Gulam Haider Jamali as well as 10 other senior police officers, who remained posted in this province in the past.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) along with the Services, General and Administration Department and other investigative agencies have appointed inquiry officers to probe the officers.
The inquiry officials have started interrogation with Jamali and former deputy inspector general of police Shahab Mazhar; former additional inspector general Aitezaz Ahsan Goraya; former superintendent of police Gulam Nabi Kerio; former additional inspector general Syed Fida Hussain Shah; Syed Sulaiman Hussain; Amjad Shaikh; Azfar Mahesar; Khalid Mustafa Korai and Umar Tufail.
The federal government had removed Jamali in March 2016 after he conceded in the Supreme Court that out of 12,000 recruitments, 5,000 were appointed illegally.
After his removal, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had also booked Jamali and six other officers on corruption charges.
The case was sent to a NAB court in line with the Supreme Court orders on the allegations of nepotism and corruption in the police department during Jamali’s tenure in office.
The NAB also booked Jamali and his other officers for committing Rs500 million (Dh17.42 million) losses to the national exchequer through corrupt practices.
