ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau Chairman Justice (R) Javed Iqbal has said NAB was trying to eliminate corruption not only in Punjab but from other parts of the country also.
He chaired the NAB Executive Board meeting at the NAB Headquarters and the meeting was attended by Deputy Chairman, Prosecutor General Accountability and senior officers of NAB.
He said NAB sun is not shining only in Punjab province but in the whole Pakistan so that darkness of corruption should be replaced with sunlight. He said NAB does not believe in discrimination against anyone and the Bureau will take action against the corrupt as NAB’s policy is to look into the case without caring about the face.
He said the main aim of NAB is to recover looted money from corrupt and deposit all looted money into national exchequer.
He directed the NAB DGs to take inquiries, investigations and complaint verifications in stipulated time. The officers have been directed to pursue corruption cases in the light of available concrete evidence so that the corrupt could be punished.
The Chairman NAB after taking responsibilities of the charge of Chairman NAB on Oct 2017, in his first address directed the NAB officers to take action against corrupt and arrest all Proclaimed offenders and absconders as per law without caring face and concentrate on face on the basis of solid evidence.
As a result of chairman NAB’s orders as many as 226 accused persons have been arrested, NAB has authorised over 872 complaints, conducted 403 inquiries and 82 investigations. NAB has also filed 217 references in the respective accountability courts. Out of which 39 have been awarded sentences.
The EBM meeting was told that two references were filed against accused Muzaffar Nishat in 2001 and 2011. The accused Muzaffar Nishat was absconder since 2001. He was sentenced by an accountability court in his absence in 2004. NAB arrested accused Mustafa Nishat as per law and the accused applied for plea bargain as per NAB ordinance. The Accountability Court will finally approve the plea bargain application.
