A major scandal has come to light in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Finance Department, involving 88 illegal recruitments of drivers, Naib Qasids, and sanitary workers under fictitious position codes PR4041, PR8657, and PR8042. These irregularities, carried out between 2019 and 2024, have reportedly resulted in a financial loss exceeding Rs 440 million to the state treasury.
Documents indicate that the recruitments were conducted secretly, bypassing legal procedures. No official advertisements were issued, no recruitment committee was formed, and the positions neither existed nor had proper approvals. Basic employment records, including service books and medical documents, were reportedly missing for all 88 employees.
Sources suggest that officials from both the Finance Department and the Accountant General’s Office were involved. When the irregularities surfaced, most employees were quickly transferred across departments, according to official records. Although the Finance Department formally instructed the AG Office to suspend salaries, the order was reportedly ignored, prolonging the financial loss. AG Office sources stated that inquiry orders were issued but could not clarify why salaries continued to be disbursed.
Efforts to reach Accountant General Khalid Mahmood for comment were unsuccessful. KP Chief Minister’s Finance Adviser Mazammil Aslam confirmed that an inquiry committee has been established to identify those responsible, with the Anti-Corruption Department also taking up the case. He explained that approved procedures for recruitment against existing vacancies and for creating new positions were deliberately bypassed. Aslam added that the Finance Department itself traced and detected the fraud, exposing one of the largest financial irregularities in recent years.
