LAHORE: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Chairman Lt. Gen. (retd) Nazir Ahmed has said that concerted efforts are being made to bring more reforms and improvements in NAB to fulfill its mission of eradicating corruption and redressing public grievances. can be carried forward in a more efficient manner. And effectively.
Addressing the check distribution ceremony to the victims of four housing societies here on Monday, he said that it is the responsibility of NAB to hand over the received amounts to the victims in a transparent manner. Chairman NAB said that NAB’s Lahore Region has played a significant role in anti-corruption efforts, which enabled the recovery of billions of rupees in various housing sector, forex trading and other scams and returned the money to the victims.
Chairman NAB said that NAB has made direct recovery of 54 billion rupees and indirect recovery of 200 billion rupees, whereas during the last 15 to 20 years, direct recovery of about 100 billion rupees was possible by NAB. He said that in the past, attempts were made to politicize NAB by using it as a tool of political engineering, due to which NAB faced severe criticism, but now for its restoration, irregularities in the bureau or Reforms are being introduced to overcome the problems. Taking detailed steps against reputation and corruption.
He said that NAB has done a great job to improve the corruption index of the country at the global level, however, during the last few years, the international corruption index has shown the decrease in the position of Pakistan in anti-corruption efforts and parameters. The Chairman said that NAB is adopting a hunting-based policy to deal with NAB officials and solve the problems faced by the people related to corruption scams. Which will first be held on Friday in the last week of June, in which NAB officers will listen to public complaints and suggest steps to resolve them.
He said that NAB is truly non-political as its aim is only to work against corruption and corrupt elements which will continue till the complete eradication of corruption. He said that action against corruption, white-collar crimes and others are among the top priorities of NAB. He added that despite taking action against corruption, corruption scandals keep coming up often, so this is also the main duty of NAB. That it should amend or upgrade existing laws related to corruption. corrupt practices.
He asserted that the existing anti-corruption laws are being reviewed and if necessary, amendments will be made soon to create an effective business-friendly environment. Chairman NAB said that NAB believes in more results on less projection to provide convenience to the public as soon as possible, adding that businessmen, traders, investors and public investment will be protected at all costs. .
He said that a procedure is being devised by NAB after which the matters will not be limited only to the buyer or developer but a regulator will also come forward to prevent fraud or corruption in the housing schemes sector. On this occasion, he also directed the NAB officials to deal with the cases in months and not in years so that people can get justice as soon as possible. Will be welcomed.
Earlier, Chairman NAB distributed checks among the victims of four housing societies. IGP Dr Usman Anwar was also present. A plea bargain of 16 billion 60 crore rupees was made by NAB Lahore in four different cases, out of which the payment of 4 billion rupees was started from (June 12) which will be completed in the next 15 days.
3 billion 60 crore rupees were handed over to 11 thousand 880 victims as the first installment in Eden housing scandal. In the Homeland Real Estate and Builders case, NAB Lahore recovered Rs 39.6 million from the accused, of which Rs 290 million was returned to 67 victims.
In the Rahman City case, 124 registrations worth Rs 112 million were given to the victims while Rs 33.3 million were handed over to the land owners. In the Punjab Highway Department case, NAB Lahore recovered Rs 43.2 million from the accused. However, NAB Lahore gave the final check of 80 lakh rupees to Chief Secretary Punjab after receiving the entire amount.
