NAB Receives 44,315 Complaints, Arrests 503 Persons In One Year

NAB receives 44,315 complaints, arrests 503 persons in one year

National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has received 44,315 complaints and arrested 503 accused persons during last one year.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 26th Oct, 2018 ) :National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has received 44,315 complaints and arrested 503 accused persons during last one year.

The Bureau also authorized 1713 complaint verifications, 877 inquiries and 227 investigations, and recovered Rs. 2580 million from corrupt elements during the period and deposited the amount in national exchequer.

The recovery made possible return of amount also to hundreds of affectees and some government departments.

The Bureau has also convened various Executive board meetings in which various important decisions were taken. NAB has filed 440 corruption references in various Accountability Courts as per law during last one year.

A document showing performance of NAB on Friday said corruption is mother of all evils which is one of major hurdle in way of progress and prosperity.

Being apex anti-corruption organization, today NAB is a role model institution among SAARC countries and its performance has appreciated by all reputed national and international organizations like PILDAT, Mishal Pakistan, Transparency International and World Economic Forum.

NAB since its inception has recovered over Rs 297 billion from the corrupt and deposited in national exchequer.

Moreover, NAB's conviction ratio is approximately 77 per cent.

He said NAB has established more than 50,000 Character Building Societies to aware students about ill effects of corruption.

Due to vigorous awareness campaign, today eradication of corruption is voice of whole nation and NAB under leadership of Javed Iqbal, was fully geared up and perfected its procedures to come up to expectations of nation for corruption free Pakistan.

Justice Javed Iqbal believes NAB is not for victimization against anyone. NAB has no connection with any party as it sees case not face.

Chairman NAB has directed all officials to complete all inquiries, investigations and file corruption references in respective Accountability Courts strictly on merit as per law.

In last one year, Chairman NAB has taken notice of various complaints including alleged corruption reports in Multan Metro Project, corruption in 56 public limited companies, existence of 435 offshore companies of Pakistanis in Panama and British Virgin Islands, corruption in construction, expansion of Kachhi Kanal, Gwadar Industrial Estate Development Authority, inquiry against some local NGOs and INGOs on reports of alleged embezzlement of funds, Sale of PIA aircraft on cheaper rates and return of housing societies plundered amount.

RDA, ICT, CDA, KDA, PDA, LDA and QDA have started placing details of illegal housing societies/cooperative housing societies on their website and also informing people through advertisements in order to aware people about their investments in legal housing societies.

Chairman NAB has started listening public complaints on every last Thursday of the month and directed all DGs of Regional Bureaus to listen public complaints related to corruption in their respective Regional Bureaus.

The response from citizen is very encouraging and they have appreciated the initiative of Chairman for opening doors of NAB for general public.

The Chairman during last one year has rejuvenated NABwhich has become a vibrant organization for making corruptionfree Pakistan with help of all stakeholders.