ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights was on Monday apprised that the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has recovered total embezzled amount of Rs 263.898 billion since its inception till June 30.
The committee, which met here with Muhammad Javed Abbasi in the chair, was informed that the Bureau had received 279,332 cases till June 30 , 279,065 of them had been processed so far and 267 complains were pending.
The Bureau authorized inquiries in 6,163 cases. Inquiries into 5,348 cases had been completed and 815 were under progress.
NAB officials briefed the committee that 2283 references had been filed to the Bureau, 727 were pending while 1,556 had been decided.
Some 425 accused were acquitted whereas 846 were convicted after thorough investigation by the NAB. Out of 898 references filed against federal government employees, 241 accused were acquitted and 504 convicted.
The officials said the Bureau started clearing the backlog after 2014 and so far 70 per cent cases had been disposed of.
The committee meeting was attended by Senators Saeed Ghani, Ayesha Zia, Mrs. Zahida Khan, and officials of NAB, Federal Investigation Agency and Ministry of Law, Justice and Human Rights.
