NAB report sought on ‘Rs72m corruption’ in metro bus

Lahore High Court on Thursday sought a report from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on a petition of a private company alleging Rs72 million corruption in the Lahore Metro Bus Service project.
Pak-German Company, which deals in electrical parts, filed the petition and alleged that former deputy director of Punjab Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA), Najaf Iqbal, an officer of Lahore Development Authority, Shabana Najaf, and Faisal Farid committed corruption of Rs72 million during the construction of the MBS project. Advocate Khurram Masood Kiyani, counsel for the company, told a division bench that the respondent officers misused their powers and received millions of rupees from the petitioner-company as illegal gratification. The company had supplied different electrical equipments for the project. He said an application was submitted to the NAB with all evidences of the alleged corruption in the MBS project but no action was taken so far. —Correspondent