The recovered amount has been deposited in the national kitty.
Lahore (Pakistan Point News – 2nd February, 2019) The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has recovered a record Rs 298 billion from corrupt elements in the last 13 years.
The recovered amount has been deposited in the national kitty.
According to a NAB press release, eradication of corruption has become voice of the nation now.
The press release said NAB has established Complaint Cells at its regional offices while a separate Cell has also been established for listening the complaints of business community.
The NAB has so far filed 3,488 corruption references in various accountability courts and apprehended 3,813 corruption suspects, a meeting of anti-graft watchdog was told on Thursday.
The meeting held to review overall performance of NAB was told that NAB has so far received 408431 applications since inception and conducted complaint verification of 14069, approved 9,400 inquiries, 4,122 investigations.
Furthermore, 1,219 corruption references involving Rs 895.135 billion were being heard by various accountability courts.
NAB had received 54,344 complaints from October 11, 2017 to Dec 31, 2018. Out of which 2,125 complaints were verified, 1,059 inquiries were conducted besides approving 302 investigations against various corrupt elements.
The meeting was told that NAB has apprehended 561 corruption suspects besides filing 540 corruption references in various accountability courts in last 13 months since assuming coveted charge by incumbent post of chairman. NAB has also recovered record Rs 3919.011 million and deposited in the national kitty during the tenure of current chairman.
