ISLAMABAD: The accountability court of Islamabad has decided to indict seven suspects allegedly involved in misuse of subsidy for sugarcane farmers on Jan 7.
The court resumed on Wednesday hearing of a reference filed by the National Accountability Bureau over embezzlement of funds and corruption in subsidy meant for sugarcane farmers.
The reference, filed under the National Accountability Ordinance 1999, accused the suspects of being involved in embezzlement of funds amounting to millions of rupees issued by the Sindh government to sugar mills as a subsidy for onward payment to sugarcane farmers.
The Sindh government, through the provincial cane commissioner, had paid Rs3.9 billion to different sugar mills for onward payment to growers as subsidy on account of supply of sugarcane for the season 2014-15.