BISE IT consultant Dr Majid Naeem Arrests

[Salman Mushtaq]

Dr Majid Naeem, former IT consultant for the Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) in Punjab, was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau on Saturday on charges that he abused his authority and misappropriated millions of rupees while principal of the Punjab University College of Information Technology. An accountability court granted NAB permission to hold Dr Naeem in custody for one day. The bureau must produce him in court again on Monday to seek an extension in his remand.
Naeem was arrested as he left the Lahore High Court, where a judicial commission is conducting an inquiry into the failure of the online results system he prepared for the BISE.
While the NAB reference stated that he had been arrested for misappropriating Rs2,797,850 from PUCIT funds, NAB Punjab Director Attiqur Rehman said the amount was Rs4.1 million.
Rehman said NAB had filed the reference in an accountability court in 2010 on the Punjab University management’s complaint. He said that Naeem had not cooperated with the NAB investigators. He said that NAB had found documentary and other evidence of his guilt.
He said NAB was conducting an investigation into alleged misappropriation by Dr Naeem as IT consultant for the eight examination boards of the province. NAB had also asked the Interior Ministry to place Naeem on the Exit Control List.Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2011.