ISLAMABAD: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has failed to pursue dozens of pending corruption cases in Capital Development Authority (CDA).
The FIA officials worked hand in glove with CDA officials that is why the corruption cases of billions of rupees have been lingering on for years. ‘For the last five years, not a single case has seen its logical conclusion, which is unfortunate,” they said.
Mayor of Islamabad and CDA Chairman, Sheikh Ansar Aziz said that he often signed files for approval to send record sought by the FIA every week. “It is FIA’s inefficiency that they have failed to conclude a single case in the past half-decade,” he said.
These sources have told this scribe that taking bribes is a common practice in the FIA and the officials delay the corruption cases despite having concrete proofs that is why no major developments are made in such cases.
Aziz was grilled by FIA’s Islamabad zone director and officials of anti-corruption cell in August this year over CDA’s inability to provide the record in different inquiries.
Upon contact, Aziz claimed that the authority always cooperates with the investigation agency. FIA’s claim is baseless and unperceivable, he concluded. CDA’s Deputy Director Media Malik Saleem could not be reached.
At this point, 12 mega cases pertaining to corruption of billions of rupees in CDA are still pending at the FIA after being labelled as ‘inconclusive’. These cases include; La-Montana case, illegal promotions, illegal recruitments, Grand Hyatt case, Safa Gold Mall case, deforestation of Margalla Hills, tree plantation campaign at Islamabad highway, double allotments by land directorate, illegal billboards and embezzlement in advertisements by directorate of municipal administration, illegal housing societies case, Kachi Abadi case and Shifa International Hospital case.
