No progress in Rs130m NAB case of MC complex construction
National
January 30, 2021
GUJRANWALA: No progress has been reported in a mega corruption scandal regarding incomplete construction of Municipal Corporation Complex that is still pending in the NAB for 20 years and reportedly all relevant record of the case has gone missing. Reportedly, in 2001 a case was registered against a contractor and former municipal corporation officers and councillors for their Rs 130 million embezzlement in the construction of the MC complex building. Allegedly the contract was given to Rathore Enterprises to construct the complex on 40-Kanal of land for Rs 130 million and after few days the contractor disappeared after receiving Rs 130m in advance. Later, some corporation officers and councillors took into their custody the building material and a case was instituted in the NAB in 2001 during Musharraf’s tenure and NAB officials initiated an action against 14 officers, engineers and former cou
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ISLAMABAD: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday decided to launch probe against former home minister of Sindh Sohail Anwar Siyal and Awais Muzaffar Tappi, a close aide to former president Asif Ali Zardari, in corruption cases.
The decision was made in a meeting of the bureau’s executive board presided over by NAB chairman retired Justice Javed Iqbal.
According to an official press release, the meeting approved conduct of five investigations against different suspects, including officers of Special Initiative Department, Sindh; Messrs Pak Oasis Industries Private Limited and others; Aslam Shah, chairman PMS, GIEDA; Farid Ahmed, former managing director, GIDA; management of Sindh fisheries department; Sohail Anwar Siyal; Ali Anwar; and management of the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA).
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