ISLAMABAD: As a result of a crackdown operation against corruption in the country, National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has submitted Rs 275 billion to national exchequer.
NAB Spokesman said that under self-accountability practice, the bureau has also initiated action against its 83 officials, out of which 22 had been suspended and 34 more had been awarded punishments over the past two and a half years. He also said that the reports of pocketing the share by NAB officials from the money recovered from corrupts are completely false.
The NAB chairman also said on Thursday that he is resolved to continue the policy of zero tolerance against corruption within the department. In another development on Friday, Former Balochistan finance secretary Mushtaq Ahmed Raisani had been handed over to the NAB on a 14-day physical remand.
Another suspect in the case named Nadeem Iqbal has also been arrested. He was working as an accountant at the Municipal Committee Khaliqabad. Both Nadeem and Raisani will be presented before the courts on June 2nd 2016.
The finance secretary was arrested during a raid on the finance department at the Civil Secretariat on corruption charges and was handed over to NAB for a 14-day remand. Today after the completion of that tenure he was presented to the court which ordered another 14-day physical remand. According to sources, he has confessed to his involvement in massive financial embezzlement.
Over Rs 650 million in cash including local and foreign currency and gold jewellery weighing several kilograms was recovered from his residence. Sources said that he has admitted that the money recovered from his residence was stolen from the national coffers. He has also revealed names of facilitators and other suspects involved in corruption on a massive scale. Further arrests are likely as a series of raids is also being carried out to trace and arrest the facilitators.
