PSO employees caught with hand in the till

Karachi-police grilled PSO employees over the embezzlement of 30 millions, TheNation has learnt here on Friday.
According to the report Frere Police have taken into the custody two employees of the Pakistan State Oil (PSO), namely Humair Altaf, Senior Engineer Card Division, and Kaddafi, account officer card department. A source privy to the matter told TheNation that Audit Department PSO found out the misappropriation in prepaid card section and revealed the matter before the higher hierarchy of the PSO.
The source explained that the accused persons were also present in the office when the matter was disclosed while management kept them there till late night on Thursday and finally called the police and handed them into police custody. Shazada Saleem, SHO Frere Police, when contacted declined to admit the arrest of any PSO employee while saying that two employees of PSO were brought in because of their personal dispute and the dispute was resolved in the wee hours of Thursday night and both were released.
On the other side, PSO spokesman, Amir Abbasi, while talking to TheNation, revealed that PSO had found out the misappropriation and sent them in police custody. The delay in the FIR registration is not because of the political influence, he said and added that police would register the FIR after the investigation. Abbasi further said that the actual amount of embezzlement has yet to be ascertained but the amount will be disclosed within a few days as the department has taken up the matter seriously. Source unearthed that both the accused persons were involved in the scam of millions of rupees as they had authority to block the cards and issuance through which they worked the scam. An inside source pointed out that the accused persons had been doing all the said misappropriation for around one year.
The same source disclosed that Humair Altaf was the main accused, and had political influence, and a number of other relatives of Altaf are on the higher slots in the PSO due to which PSO authorities were reluctant to take action against him. The source added that one of the maternal uncles of Altaf had also been found involved in another scam a couple of years ago but authorities had kept the issue in cold storage.