NAB Multan Bureau files first corruption reference

ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) Multan Regional Bureau which was established in March 2015 to address the corruption complaints of three divisions of South Punjab including Multan, Bahawalpur and Dera Ghazi Khan in order to save the people of South Punjab living in far flung areas for travelling long distances to get their grievances addressed at NAB Lahore Bureau, has filed its first corruption reference against Sheikh Zakaur Rehman s/o Bahauddin Haji.
In this case the NAB received complaints against the accused person who is businessman from district Vehari for collection of Rs22,928,015 money from public at large in the pretext of investment in his wholesale business of sugar with a promise of high profit. In order to deceive the people at large, the accused Sheikh Zakaur Rehman gave fake payment receipts and post dated cheques to the affected from his personal and business accounts but any respective bank honored no cheque.
During the investigation, it has transpired that the accused Sheikh Zakaur Rehman allured innocent people by offering high rates of profit on their investments in his sugar business and embezzled hard earn money of people to the tune of Rs22,928,015.
The NAB Multan has filed a corruption reference against the accused in the Accountability Court Multan as accused Sheikh Zakaur Rehman was running his sugar business in Multan.
The decision of Chairman NAB Qamar Zaman Chaudhry of establishing NAB Multan Bureau was hailed by the people of South Punjab with a clear vision to deal strictly under NAB’s zero tolerance policy against corruption and pursue corruption cases on transparently and merit on the basis of evidence.