‘NAB recovers Rs296 bn from corrupt so far’

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Wednesday claimed that it has so far recovered Rs296 billion from corrupt and deposited it into the national exchequer.

Chairman NAB Justice (R) Javed Iqbal chaired a meeting to review overall performance of NAB at NAB Headquarters. The meeting was told that NAB has received 3,67,742 complaints since its establishment and out of which 3, 65,374 have been disposed of as per law.

The NAB has authorised complaint verification of 12,702 complaints, whereas 12,189 complaints have been processed and disposed of after due process as per law. The NAB has authorised to conduct inquiries of 8,084 complaints, out of which 7,425 inquiries have been concluded to their logical end as per law.

The meeting was told that the NAB has authorised to file 3,050 references in respective accountability courts, out of which 2,049 references have been concluded as per law.

NAB chairman said the complaint verifications, inquiries, investigations and complaints verifications should be completed as per prescribed time frame of 10 months, so that the corrupt could be punished as per law while as many as 1,200 references are being heard in respective accountability courts. He said that request for early hearing of 1,200 corruption references would be filed in respective accountability courts so that people’s Rs970 billion could be recovered from corrupt and deposited into national exchequer. He said elimination of corruption was top most priority of NAB and was using his best abilities and resources in this regard.

  He directed NAB officers to perform their duties with utmost honesty, merit and as per law and law violators have no place in NAB. NAB is vigorously pursuing the policy of indiscriminate accountability. “No hurdle in this regard would be tolerated,“ he added.