KARACHI: Anti-Corruption authorities Thursday arrested Director General (DG) Karachi Development Authority (KDA) Asif Memon over corruption charges.

According to the sources, the Anti-Corruption Karachi East Zone team in its latest raids arrested DG KDA Asif Memon, KDA’s deputy director Atif and Recoveries Additional Director Shiekh Fareed. A case has been lodged against all the accused.

The officers have been arrested in corruption cases but are not included in the probe of the Nasla Tower case yet.

The Anti-corruption officials said that despite being suspended, the arrested officials were involved in illegal land allotment.

According to the officials another KDA assistant director, Zubair, is also nominated as accused in the case but he fled before they could arrest him.

A first information report (FIR) was lodged against the officers on the directives of Anti-corruption officials.

Meanwhile, action has also been initiated against those officials who approved Nasla Tower’s construction plan.

The Ferozeabad police registered an FIR against the builder of Nasla Tower, officials of Sindh Building Control Authority (SBCA), Sindhi Muslim Cooperative Housing Society (SMCHS) and the plot owner.

The case was registered on behalf of the state and included different sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) relating to fraud, illegal actions of public servants and criminal breach of trust by officers.

The FIR was lodged on the directives of the Supreme Court. On June 19, the apex court at a hearing at the Karachi registry had ordered the civic authorities to immediately demolish Nasla Tower built in violation of the law.