ISLAMABAD: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has received about 3,26,694 complaints from individuals, private and public organizations during last 16 years.
The Bureau, during this period also authorized 10,992 complaint verification, 7303 inquiries, 3648 investigations and filed 2667 corruption references in respective accountability courts with overall conviction rate of around 76 percent.
This was informed in a fortnightly meeting held here with Chairman NAB, Qamar Zaman Chaudhry in chair on Friday to review latest progress on Monitoring and Evaluation System (MES) at Bureau. NAB’s prime focus is on cases of cheating public at large by fraudulent financial companies, bank frauds, willful bank loan defaults, misuse of authority and embezzlement of state funds by government servants etc.
Since NAB’s inception, one of its major achievements was recovery of around Rs. 287 billion of ill-gotten money which was deposited in national exchequer.
During the meeting, Advisor to Chairman on MES gave presentation regarding the latest progress on its working and efficacy in future. The Chairman said NAB was committed to working with absolute professionalism, transparently and on merit with realization that eradication of corruption is our national duty. He said MES in NAB is to track implementation and outputs systematically, and measure effectiveness of performance which helps in enhancing the operational, monitoring and evaluation capabilities. He directed the Advisor on MES that it should be implemented in all Regional Bureaus and Headquarter at the earliest.
