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Rs386b to be recouped from sugar barons
PM sought briefing on commission report findings
PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD:
The government has decided to recover Rs386 billion from the sugar mills responsible for an acute shortage of the commodity last year.
According to sources, Prime Minister Imran Khan, in a recent cabinet meeting, asked Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar to brief the cabinet about the actions taken so far on the report of a sugar commission that conducted a probe into the crisis.
The commission led by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had accused sugar mill owners of earning illegal profits worth billions of rupees through unjustified price hikes, benami transactions, tax evasion, misuse of subsidy and purchasing sugarcane off the books.
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar addresses a press conference on details of state land recovered from alleged land grabbers in Punjab. DawnNewsTV
Adviser to the Prime Minister on Interior and Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar said on Sunday that the government had retrieved 8,085 acres of illegally occupied state land worth Rs210 billion through reclamation operations against the
qabza mafia in Punjab.
Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, Akbar also revealed the names of 36 politicians affiliated with the PML-N, who he alleged were either complicit with the land grabbers or directly part of the mafia.
In this file photo, Adviser to Prime Minister on Accountability and Interior Shahzad Akbar speaks at a press conference. DawnNewsTV/File
ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the Prime Minister on Accountability Mirza Shahzad Akbar on Thursday announced that the government had retrieved 22 “illegal” properties wroth over Rs200 billion owned by opposition leaders, mostly belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
“The Qabza mafia (land grabbers) benefiting former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family members have also been arrested,” Mr Akbar said while speaking at a press conference here.
“The Sharifs have been deprived of monetary benefits they were taking from the Qabza mafia,” the adviser said.