ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau, during a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Law and Justice, has revealed that the bureau has so far recovered Rs264 billion in corruption and bank default cases.
The meeting was held at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Senator Mohammad Javed Abbasi to review the performance of the NAB and the FIA and their mandate to eradicate corruption. The NAB was established under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999 during the Musharraf regime.
The top officials of NAB told the meeting that the bureau received total 279,332 complaints in corruption cases, out of which 2,79,065 had been disposed of and 267 were pending with it. The bureau initiated 6,163 inquiries, out of which 5348 were disposed of while 815 were under process.
The NAB launched investigations into 3077 complaints and investigations of 2776 complaints had been completed and 301 were pending. The bureau has so far filed 2283 cases before courts for trial and 1556 cases had been decided. Similarly, it had filed corruption references against 898 federal government employees.
During the briefing, the committee was informed that after 2014, it was mandatory under a policy to dispose of any corruption case within 10 months and 80 per cent complaints were expected to be disposed of at the level of scrutiny.
The committee sought a report from the NAB about details of the cases transferred to it from the FIA and other organisations as well as a list of its prosecutors.
Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officers told the committee the provinces and Fata did not come in its jurisdiction, while it deals with illegal immigration, human smuggling, corruption, money laundering and cyber crime. The FIA has transferred 2114 to the NAB while 522 from the NAB to the FIA.
